SYSTEM CONFIGURATION GUIDE
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NEC Express5800/T120g
NEC Corporation
Revision 5.0
– February, 2017
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4 Internal Hard Disk Drives
4.1
RAID Configuration
Refer to the section in accordance with your disk form factor.
4.1.1
Hot Plug 2.5-inch Drive Configuration
Refer to the section in accordance with your OS and RAID configuration. For example, when you would like to
configure RAID 0/1/10 1GB cache with Windows Server 2012 R2, refer to the section 4.2.3 for the required
components and then refer to the section 4.3.2 for the hard drives.
Operating System
Supported RAID configuration
Supported
Drives
RAID and Cache
Section
Windows Server 2008 R2
VMware ESXi 5.5
VMware ESXi 6.0
Non-RAID (Embedded SATA)
4.2.1
4.3.1
RAID 0/1 (Embedded SATA RAID)
(Windows only)
4.2.2
4.3.2
RAID 0/1/10 1GB Cache
4.2.3
4.3.3
RAID 5/6/50/60 1GB Cache
4.2.4
RAID 5/6/50/60 2GB Cache
4.2.5
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
VMware ESXi 6.5
Non-RAID (Embedded SATA)
4.2.1
4.3.1
RAID 0/1 (Embedded SATA RAID)
(Windows only)
4.2.2
4.3.2
RAID 0/1/10 1GB Cache
4.2.3
4.3.4
RAID 5/6/50/60 1GB Cache
4.2.4
RAID 5/6/50/60 2GB Cache
4.2.5
NOTE:
Up to four hard drives can be installed in the Embedded SATA configuration.
Hot plug insertion/removal is not supported with the Embedded SATA non-RAID controller.
Embedded SATA RAID controller is supported only on limited OS. For more details, please see OS Support Matrix for PCI Cards
and Embedded Controllers.
It is recommended to set RAID array configuration drives less than eight per disk group in order to minimize the risk of becoming
multiple hard drives failure.
To configure a large-capacity RAID array, it is recommended to configure in RAID 6 or RAID 60 in order to minimize the risk of
becoming multiple hard drives failure during the RAID rebuilding process.
