Maximum Capacity
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Hardware Configuration
– Two disk array controllers connected directly to host Fibre Channel adapters
– Four disk enclosures with ten 73 GByte disks each (40 disks total)
– Disk enclosures configured for full-bus mode (one SCSI channel per enclosure)
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Volume Group Configuration
– Ten RAID 5 volume groups, each comprising four disks (3 data + 1 parity)
– Each disk in a volume group is in a separate enclosure.
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High Availability
– Handles a single disk failure, single controller, single channel, single BCC, or a single
disk enclosure failure
– Expansion requires powering down the disk array and adding additional disk
enclosures and cabling
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Disk Capacity
– Maximum capacity 2920 GBytes
– Usable capacity 2190 GBytes
Recommended Disk Array Configurations
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