2. Disk Operations
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2.
Disk Operations
NEC Express5800/ft series duplicates disks to secure data integrity by Software-RAID.
Important
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It is recommended to create only a system partition on the disk specified at
installation of ESXi.
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When you have created the VMFS data store area on the disk with specified at
installation of ESXi, note that all area of the disk is cleared at the time of the
reinstallation of the ESXi.
2.1
Operable disk configuration
Duplication must be configured for all the internal disks in NEC Express5800/ft series.
The disks redundancy is configured by Software RAID with the internal disks of corresponding slots.
The internal disks path and device name
Slots corresponding to the mirroring process
Corresponding slots
Slot 0 (10/40/1)
Slot 0 (11/40/1)
Slot 1 (10/40/2)
Slot 1 (11/40/2)
Slot 2 (10/40/3)
Slot 2 (11/40/3)
Slot 3 (10/40/4)
Slot 3 (11/40/4)
Slot 4 (10/40/5)
Slot 4 (11/40/5)
Slot 5 (10/40/6)
Slot 5 (11/40/6)
Slot 6 (10/40/7)
Slot 6 (11/40/7)
Slot 7 (10/40/8)
Slot 7 (11/40/8)
Slot 0
Slot 1
Slot 7
Slot 6
Slot 5
Slot 4
Slot 3
Slot 2
Slot 7
Slot 0
Slot 6
Slot 5
Slot 4
Slot 3
Slot 2
Slot 1