A Operating System Logical Drives - HP StoreEasy 1000 Storage Administrator's Manual

A Operating system logical drives

The logical disks reside on physical drives as shown in
configurations (page
IMPORTANT:
The Operating System volume default factory settings can be customized after the operating system
is up and running. The following settings can be changed:
OS logical drive size can be changed to 60 GB or higher
If the Operating System volume is customized and the System Recovery DVD is run at a later time,
the System Recovery process will maintain the custom settings as long as the above criteria are
met ( OS logical drive size of 60 GB or higher) and the OS volume is labeled System. If the storage
system arrays are deleted and the System Recovery DVD is run, the System Recovery process will
configure the storage system using the factory default settings listed in the table below.
HP StoreEasy 1000 Storage systems do not include preconfigured data volumes. The administrator
must configure data storage for the storage system.
The system reserved partition contains the operating system boot loader and allows you to enable
BitLocker Drive Encryption for the Operating System volume.
Table 8 Storage system RAID configurations
Server model
HP StoreEasy 14x0 Storage (base model)
HP StoreEasy 14x0 8TB SATA Storage
HP StoreEasy 14x0 12000 SATA Storage
HP StoreEasy 15x0 Storage (base model)
HP StoreEasy 15x0 8TB SATA Storage
HP StoreEasy 15x0 12000 SATA Storage
HP StoreEasy 16x0 Storage (base model)
HP StoreEasy 16x0 28TB SATA Storage
HP StoreEasy 16x0 42000 SATA Storage
HP StoreEasy 16x0 900GB SAS Storage
HP StoreEasy 18x0 Storage (base model)
HP StoreEasy 18x0 12.6TB Storage
HP StoreEasy 18x0 20.7TB Storage
Table 9 Storage system RAID configurations
Server model
NOTE: In the HP Array Configuration Utility (ACU), mapping of logical disks begins at 1. In
Microsoft Disk Manager, mapping begins at 0.
108 Operating system logical drives
108).
The first two logical drives are configured for the storage system operating system.
Storage system RAID
Logical Disk 1
Operating System Volume (100 GB)
RAID 6
Physical Drives 1–4
Operating System Volume (100 GB)
RAID 6
Physical Drives 1–4
Operating System Volume (100 GB)
RAID 6
Physical Drives 2–8
Operating System Volume (450 GB)
RAID 1
Physical Drives 13–14
Operating System Volume (450 GB)
RAID 1
Physical Drives 24–25
Logical Disk 1
Operating System Volume (450 GB)
RAID 1
Physical Drives 1–2