Dell PowerVault DL2000 - Manual (Page 16)

Figure 7. Dell PowerVault DL2000 and DL2100 Disk Slots
PowerVault DL2100 Disk Configurations
The PowerVault DL2100 supports SATA drives only. The operating system resides on a RAID 1 (mirrored) virtual disk
using slots 0 and 1. See the figure above. If the DL2100 system shipped with a SAS 6i/R internal storage controller, slots 2
through 5 are not available for automatic disk configuration but can be manually configured.
If the DL2100 system shipped with a PERC 6/i internal storage controller, the standard configuration is comprised of a
single disk group occupying slots 2 through 5. Automatic disk configuration creates one or more RAID 5 virtual disks on
this disk group.
PowerVault MD1000 Storage Enclosure Disk Configurations
The PowerVault MD1000 supports SATA drives only. The standard configuration is comprised of a hot spare in slot 0, a
disk group occupying slots 1 through 7, and a disk group occupying slots 8 through 14. Automatic disk configuration
creates one or more RAID 5 virtual disks on each disk group.
Figure 8. Dell PowerVault MD1000 Storage Enclosure Disk Slots
PowerVault DL2200 Disk Configurations Running Windows Server 2008 Standard x64
Edition
The PowerVault DL2200 supports SAS and nearline SAS drives only. The operating system resides on a RAID 1
(mirrored) virtual disk located within the system. These disks appear as slots 12 and 13 in Dell OpenManage Server
Administrator. For information on these disks, see the
Dell PowerVault DL2200 Hardware Owner’s Manual at
support.dell.com/manuals.
The standard configuration is comprised of hot spare in slot 0, a disk group occupying slots 1 through 5, and a disk group
occupying slots 6 through 11. Automatic disk configuration creates one or more RAID 5 virtual disks on each disk group.
The standard configuration of the optional PowerVault MD1200 storage enclosure is identical to the DL2200’s slots 0
through 11.
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