Hard Disk Drive Operations; Operable Disk Configuration - NEC EXP320R Maintenance Manual

Chapter 2 Configuring and Upgrading the System
2.

Hard Disk Drive Operations

NEC Express5800/ft series duplicates the hard disk drive to secure data integrity by Software-RAID.
2.1

Operable disk configuration

Duplication must be configured for all the internal hard disk drives in NEC Express5800/ft series.
The hard disk drives redundancy is configured by Software RAID with the internal disks of corresponding
slots.
Express5800/R320e-E4, R320e-M4, R320f-E4, R320f-M4 Maintenance Guide (VMware)
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Important It is recommended to create only a system partition on the disk specified at
installation of VMware ESXi.
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When you have created the VMFS data store area on the disk with specified at
installation of VMware ESXi, note that all area of the disk is cleared at the time of
the reinstallation of the VMware ESXi.
The internal hard disk drive path and device name
Slot 3
Slot 1
Slot 0 Slot 2
10/40/1 10/40/3
10/40/4
10/40/2
11/40/1
11/40/3
11/40/2 11/40/4
Slot 0 Slot 2
Slot 1 Slot 3
Slots corresponding to the mirroring process
Corresponding slots
Slot 0 (10/40/1)
Slot 1 (10/40/2)
Slot 2 (10/40/3)
Slot 3 (10/40/4)
Slot 4 (10/40/5)
Slot 5 (10/40/6)
Slot 6 (10/40/7)
Slot 7 (10/40/8)
Slot 5
Slot 7
Slot 4 Slot 6
10/40/5 10/40/7
10/40/8
10/40/6
11/40/5 11/40/7
11/40/6 11/40/8
Slot 4 Slot 6
Slot 5 Slot 7
Slot 0 (11/40/1)
Slot 1 (11/40/2)
Slot 2 (11/40/3)
Slot 3 (11/40/4)
Slot 4 (11/40/5)
Slot 5 (11/40/6)
Slot 6 (11/40/7)
Slot 7 (11/40/8)
2. Hard Disk Drive Operations