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4.2.2
Making Your Own Volume Selection Choices
If you selected
Let me make my own choices (Advanced)
in the Volume Name screen and
clicked
Next
, the Volume Composition screen appears (see Figure 4-13). Use the following
procedure to complete the volume creation process and record your settings in Table C-1.
Figure 4-13. Volume Composition Screen
1.
In the Volume Composition screen, select a composition type. The choices are:
–
Stripe/Mirror
– creates a RAID 1 mirror for each RAID 0 stripe element. A
Stripe/Mirror volume supports an even number of members from 4 to 32, and
provides improved data redundancy and performance.
–
Parity
– provides redundancy that helps detect data integrity defects and increases
data resiliency with respect to individual drive failure. A Parity volume supports
from 3 to 17 members, although the effective storage capacity of the volume will be
reduced by one drive, which is reserved for parity data.
–
Mirror
– creates an exact copy of a set of data on two or more drives for data
redundancy. A Mirror volume supports an even number of members from 2 to 16.
–
Stripe
– splits data evenly across two or more drives for improved performance;
however, there is no parity information for redundancy. A Striped volume supports
from 2 to 16 members.
–
JBOD
- uses two or more physical drives to create one logical drive, with no data
redundancy. A JBOD volume supports a minimum of 1 drive and can span across
additional drives if the capacity required exceeds that which a single drive can
provide.
2.
Click
Next
.
If you selected
Stripe/Mirror
,
Parity
, or
Stripe
, a Stripe Width screen similar to the
one in Figure 4-14 appears and you should proceed to the next step. Otherwise, the
Number of Drives screen appears (see Figure 4-15) and you should skip to step 5.
Summary of Contents for xStack Storage DSN-4000 Series
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