Dual Disk Configuration; Disk Configuration - NEC Express5800 Series Installation Manual

Chapter 1 Installing Operating System
2.4

Dual Disk Configuration

You can skip this section if hard disk drives in your system have been duplicated. Go to Chapter 1 (2.5
Connecting Optional Device (LAN, SAS, FC Card).

2.4.1 Disk configuration

RAID1 must be configured for all the internal hard disk drives in this server. This server is composed of RAID1
by software. RAID1 is configured with the hard disk drives installed in the same slot number of CPU/IO modules
0 and 1, as shown in the figure below.
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You must perform this operation as a root user.
Important
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If you add hard disk drives, be sure to configure redundancy on them according
to the steps described below.
Slot 1 Slot 3
Slot 0 Slot 2
Slot 0 Slot 2
Slot 1 Slot 3
Corresponding slot
CPU/IO module 0 Slot 0 ←→ CPU/IO module 1 Slot 0
CPU/IO module 0 Slot 1 ←→ CPU/IO module 1 Slot 1
CPU/IO module 0 Slot 2 ←→ CPU/IO module 1 Slot 2
CPU/IO module 0 Slot 3 ←→ CPU/IO module 1 Slot 3
CPU/IO module 0 Slot 4 ←→ CPU/IO module 1 Slot 4
CPU/IO module 0 Slot 5 ←→ CPU/IO module 1 Slot 5
CPU/IO module 0 Slot 6 ←→ CPU/IO module 1 Slot 6
CPU/IO module 0 Slot 7 ←→ CPU/IO module 1 Slot 7
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Slot 5 Slot 7
Slot 4 Slot 6
Slot 4 Slot 6
Slot 5 Slot 7
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