Mirroring Disks In Internal Storage; Configuring And Creating Rdr Disks; Finding A Physical Disk; Finding An Internal Physical Disk - NEC Express5800/320Ma Administrator's Manual

Mirroring Disks in Internal Storage

Your Express5800/320Ma system internal storage supports only SATA disks. Its disks
are located in a disk tray that connects to the system backplane.
For non-RDR disk-mirroring configurations, mirror the volumes on disks in two
separate disk trays.
For RDR disk mirroring, mirror the internal storage disks as shown in
internal storage enclosures support RDR disks.
See "Finding a Physical Disk" on page 4-25
volume's hard drive.

Configuring and Creating RDR Disks

You can mirror disks in system internal storage enclosures as RDR disks.
Figure 4-1 shows how disks are mirrored in your Express5800/320Ma system. The
arrows in the figures indicate the required mirroring scheme.

Finding a Physical Disk

You find the location of
located in external storage
You can use the Logical to Physical Mapping node in ftSMC to physically locate the
disk members of RDR virtual disks, or the non-RDR disk on which a particular volume
resides.

Finding an Internal Physical Disk

System internal disks are identified in the Logical to Physical Mapping node details
pane. The information differs somewhat for RDR and non-RDR disks.
To use the Logical to Physical Mapping node
1. In ftSMC, expand ftServer I/O Enclosures and then Logical Disk Information.
2. Click Logical to Physical Mapping.
N O T E S
1. The system disk and its mirrored partner must both
reside in the same storage location.
2. The system disk and its mirrored partner are located
in slot 1 of each enclosure.
internal physical disks
using both Windows Disk Management and ftSMC.
for details about physically locating a
by using the ftSMC. You find disks
Disk Storage Management

Finding a Physical Disk

Figure 4-1. Only
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