Five Disk Enclosure Configurations - HP Surestore Disk Array 12h - And FC60 Service Manual

Five Disk Enclosure Configurations

High Availability/High Performance
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Hardware Configuration
– Two disk array controllers connected directly to host Fibre Channel adapters
– Five disk enclosures with ten 73 GByte disks each (50 disks total)
– Disk enclosures configured for full-bus mode (one SCSI channel per enclosure)
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Volume Group Configuration
– Ten RAID 0/1 volume groups, each comprising four disks (2+2)
– Five RAID 1 volume groups, each comprising two disks (1+1)
– Each disk in a volume group is in a separate enclosure.
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High Availability
– Handles a single disk failure, BCC failure, single channel failure, or a single
controller failure
– Expansion requires powering down the disk array and adding an additional disk
enclosure and cabling
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Disk Capacity
– Maximum capacity 3650 GBytes
– Usable capacity 1825 GBytes
Recommended Disk Array Configurations
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