Disk Operations; Operable Disk Configuration - NEC Express5800 Series Maintenance Manual

Chapter 2 Configuring and Upgrading the System
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Disk Operations

NEC Express5800/ft series duplicates disks to secure data integrity by Software-RAID.
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Operable disk configuration

RAID must be configured for all the internal disks in NEC Express5800/ft series.
The internal disks redundancy is configured by Software RAID with the internal disks of corresponding slots.
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Important It is recommended to create only a system partition on the disks with ESXi
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When you have created the VMFS data store area on the disk with the ESXi, note
that all area of the disk is cleared at the time of the reinstallation of the ESXi.
The internal disks path and device name
Slot 1 Slot 3
Slot 0 Slot 2
Slot 0 Slot 2
Slot 1 Slot 3
Slots corresponding to the mirroring process
Corresponding slot
Slot 0 (10/40/1)
Slot 1 (10/40/2)
Slot 2 (10/40/3)
Slot 3 (10/40/4)
Slot 4 (10/40/5)
Slot 5 (10/40/6)
Slot 6 (10/40/7)
Slot 7 (10/40/8)
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Slot 5 Slot 7
Slot 4 Slot 6
Slot 4 Slot 6
Slot 5 Slot 7
Slot 0 (11/40/1)
Slot 1 (11/40/2)
Slot 2 (11/40/3)
Slot 3 (11/40/4)
Slot 4 (11/40/5)
Slot 5 (11/40/6)
Slot 6 (11/40/7)
Slot 7 (11/40/8)
2. Disk Operations