Internal Hard Disk Drives - NEC EXPRESS5800/R320c-E4 Configuration Manual

CONFIGURATION GUIDE

4 Internal Hard Disk Drives

Available bays: 8
Category
SAS HDD
SAS SSD
NOTE:

Hard drives must be installed in identical pairs to configure RAID 1.
Recommended Partition layout
See the table below for the recommended partition layout.
Pattern
1
2
3
１
/boot partition size is recommended to be 300MB to 500MB in case of additional installation of the latest kernel
including security updates and bug fixes in the future.
2
24GB is required regardless of memory size. Otherwise, ft Server Control Software installation may fail.
3
Required swap partition size differs depending on the installed memory size in the server. See the table below for
the memory size and swap capacity.
Memory Size
Less than 4GB
4GB to 16GB
16GB to 64GB
64GB to 256GB
4
/var/crash partition for dump is required for ft Server Control Software. It is mandatory for the R320c.
NOTE:

LVM of hard drives including system partition is not supported.
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NEC EXPRESS5800/R320c-E4 for Linux
Product Name / Description
600GB 10K Hot Plug 2.5-inch SAS HDD : 1 x 600GB
900GB 10K Hot Plug 2.5-inch SAS HDD : 1 x 900GB
1.2TB 10K Hot Plug 2.5-inch SAS HDD : 1 x 1.2TB
146.5GB 15K Hot Plug 2.5-inch SAS HDD : 1 x 146.5GB
300GB 15K Hot Plug 2.5-inch SAS HDD : 1 x 300GB
200GB Hot Plug 2.5-inch SSD: 1 x 200GB
Partition
/boot
/var/crash
swap
/
Free area
/boot
/var/crash
swap
/
/home
/boot
/var/crash
swap
/
Swap Capacity
2GB
4GB
8GB
16GB
Setting
File system
ext4
ext4
swap
ext4
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ext4
ext4
swap
ext4
ext4
ext4
ext4
swap
ext4
Revision 2.0, April 2015
Size
1
512MB
2,4
24GB
3
2GB -
16GB
Remaining
1
512MB
2,4
24GB
3
2GB -
16GB
Remaining
1
512MB
2,4
24GB
3
2GB -
Remaining
Part Number
N8850-047
N8850-048
N8850-051
N8850-049
N8850-050
N8850-052
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