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40 Sun Blade X6240 Server Module Installation Guide • June 2008
RAID Drive Options
TABLE 3-3 shows the RAID drive options.
TABLE 3-3 RAID Drive Options
Mirroring the Preinstalled Solaris OS
with LSI RAID
The Solaris OS supports hardware RAID and cannot be installed on an existing array
if one has been created. Refer to the Sun Blade X6240 Server Module OS Installation
Guide (820-3969) or a REM card product guide.
REM Card Drives Supported RAID Configuration Supported Drive Usage
Sun StorageTek Seagate 73GB SAS
Fujitsu 73GB SAS
Seagate 146GB SAS
Fujitsu 146GB SAS
Hitachi 146GB SAS
Fujitsu 200GB SATA Volume – 1 disk
RAID 0 – stripe – 2 disk minimum No redundancy
RAID 1 – mirror – 2 disk minimum 50%
RAID 1E – 3 drive minimum 50%
RAID 5 – 3 drive minimum 67–94%
RAID 5EE – 4 drive minimum 50–88%
RAID 50 – 6 drive minimum 67–94%
RAID 6 – 4 drive minimum 50–88%
RAID 60 – 8 drive minimum 50–88%
Spanned Volume – 2 drive minimum 100%
RAID Volume – 4 drive minimum 50-100%
LSI 3081E Seagate 73GB SAS
Fujitsu 73GB SAS
Seagate 146GB SAS
Fujitsu 146GB SAS
Hitachi 146GB SAS
Fujitsu 200GB SATA IM (Integrated Mirror array) – 2 disk
minimum, plus up to 2 hot spare disks. Data on Primary disk
might be merged.
IME (Integrated Mirror Enhanced array) –
3 to 8 disks including up to 2 hot spares. All data will be deleted
during creation.
IS (Integrated Striping array) – 2 to 8
disks. All data will be deleted
during creation.