Note – Configuring the Sun Fire X4150 server RAID is optional, by default, the preinstalled Windows Server 2003 R2 image is configured in a
RAID Drive Options
TABLE 5-2 shows the RAID drive options:
TABLE 5-2 RAID Drive Options
SAS Card | Drives Supported | RAID Configuration Supported | Drive Usage |
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Sun StorageTek | Seagate 73 GB SAS | Volume – 1 disk |
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| Fujitsu 73 GB SAS | RAID 0 – stripe – 2 disk minimum | No redundancy |
| Seagate 146 GB SAS | RAID 1 – mirror – 2 disk minimum | 50% |
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| RAID 1E – 3 drive minimum | 50% |
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| RAID – 4 drive minimum | 50% |
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| RAID 5 – 3 drive minimum | |
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| RAID 5EE – 4 drive minimum | |
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| RAID 50 – 6 drive minimum | |
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| RAID 6 – 4 drive minimum | |
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| RAID 60 – 8 drive minimum | |
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| Spanned Volume – 2 drive minimum | 100% |
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| RAID Volume – 4 drive minimum | |
LSI 3081E | Seagate 73 GB SAS | IM – Integrated Mirror array. 2 disk | Data on Primary disk |
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| minimum, plus up to 2 hot spare disks. | might be merged. |
| Fujitsu 73 GB SAS | IME – Integrated Mirror Enhanced array. 3 | All data will be deleted |
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| to 8 disks including up to 2 hot spares. | during creation. |
| Seagate 146 GB SAS | IS – Integrated Striping array. 2 to 8 disks. | All data will be deleted |
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| during creation. |
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