Five disk enclosure configurations – HP Surestore Disk Array 12h and FC60 User Manual

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92 Recommended Disk Array Configurations

Five Disk Enclosure Configurations

High Availability/High Performance

Hardware Configuration
– Two disk array controllers connected directly to host Fibre Channel adapters
– Five disk enclosures with ten 73 GByte disks each (50 disks total)
– Disk enclosures configured for full-bus mode (one SCSI channel per enclosure)

LUN Configuration
– Ten RAID 0/1 LUNs, each comprising four disks (2+2)
– Five RAID 1 LUNs, each comprising two disks (1+1)
– Each disk in a LUN is in a separate enclosure.

High Availability
– Handles a single disk failure, BCC failure, single channel failure, or a single

controller failure

– Expansion requires powering down the disk array and adding an additional disk

enclosure and cabling

Disk Capacity
– Maximum capacity 3650 GBytes
– Usable capacity 1825 GBytes

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