CHAPTER 4
Drive Enclosure Replacement Procedures
Drive Enclosure Overview
Driv
e Enclosures are used as back-end storage for the Oracle Flash Storage
System. The Oracle FS System can be congured for as many as 30 Drive
Enclosures. The two types of Drive Enclosure are the DE2-24P Drive Enclosure
and the DE2-24C Drive Enclosure. Both Drive Enclosure types can co-exist in the
same system.
Drive Enclosure are high-availability, serial-aached SCSI (SAS-2) storage
enclosures. The DE2-24P Drive Enclosure has a 2U chassis that supports the
following types of drives:
•
Twenty four small form factor (SFF), 2.5-inch (6.35-cm) hard disk drives
(HDDs)
•
Congurations of seven or 13 performance solid state drives (SSDs)
•
Congurations of seven, 13, or 19 capacity SSDs
The DE2-24C Drive Enclosure has a 4U chassis that supports 24 large form factor
(LFF), 3.5-inch (8.89-cm) HDDs.
The following gures show the front of the DE2-24P Drive Enclosure and the
DE2-24C Drive Enclosure.
Figure 120: DE2-24P Drive Enclosure (front view)
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