NEC Express5800/B120b User Manual page 75

Virtual Disk
Virtual drive is defined in disk group. It is recognized as a physical drive by OS. The allowable
number of virtual disks is up to 16 per disk group, or up to 64 per controller.
The figure below shows a sample configuration in which the N8403-027 SATA interface card or
N8403-026 RAID Controller is connected with two HDDs, creating one Disk Group. Two virtual
drives (VD) of RAID0 are defined in the Disk Group.
Hot-Swap
The hot-swap enables a HDD to be removed (or replaced) under system operation.
RAID Controller
VD0-1
20GB
VD1-1
16GB
HDD 1
(36 GB)
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DG0 72 GB
VD0 (RAID0)
VD0-2
40 GB
20GB
VD1-2
VD1 (RAID0)
16GB
32 GB
HDD 2
(36 GB)