Physical configurations
Depending on the model, each DL100 G2 DP Storage Server comes with
either two or four Serial Advanced Technology At tachment (SATA) hard disk
drives (HDDs) and /or a n additional external MSA20 storage enclosure:
DL100 G2 mo del Internal HDD External HDD
1TB
4
0
3TB 2
12 (in one MSA20)
6TB 2
24 (in two MSA20)
The following sections describe how these HDDs are configured for each
DP Storage Ser ver based on whether two or four HDD s are installed.
Four-HDD configurations
The four HDDs included with the DL100 G2 DP Storage Server (1TB model)
are configured for hardware RA ID fault tolerance usin g the Adaptec RAID
controller. The HDDs are hot-pluggable and hot-swappable. The drives
can be removed and installed with the power on; the Adaptec controller
determines whether a rebuild of a drive is necessary.
The DL100 G2 DP Storage Server (four-HDD) uses Microsoft Disk Manager
(DM) for managing the logical drives presented to the file system. The
DL100 G2 DP Storage Server (four-HDD) uses all three logical drives as
presented to it from the physical storage layer. The first two logical drives
are used for housing th e OS and DON’T ERASE basic partitions. The
third logical drive houses the data volume to be added into the DPM
administration console on a basic partition.
Table3DL100G21TBDPStorageServer(four-HDD)internal
drive configurations
Logical
drive
RAID level
Size/allocation
Purpose
1
RAID 5
12 GB across physical drives
0, 1, 2, 3.
OS
2
RAID 5
5GBacrossphysicaldrives
0, 1, 2, 3.
DON’T
ERASE
3
RAID 5
Remaining space across all
physical drives.
Data
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Default storage configurations
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