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Disk Pools
Faster reconstruction of data
– Disk pools do not use hot spare drives for data
protection like a volume group does. Instead of hot spare drives, disk pools use
spare capacity within each drive that comprises the disk pool.
In hot spare drive coverage, the maximum drive IOPS limits the speed of
reconstruction of data from the failed drive to the hot spare drive. In a disk pool,
the reconstruction of data is much faster because the spare capacity in all of the
drives that comprise the disk pool is used. Additionally, the data to reconstruct
after a drive failure is reduced because the data is spread randomly across more
drives in a disk pool.
Faster reconstruction of data in a disk pool also reduces the risk of additional
drive failures during a reconstruction operation. For example, consider a drive
failure in a RAID Level 5 volume group that is comprised of three drives. The
time it takes to reconstruct the data from the failed drive is relatively longer for a
volume group. During the reconstruction of data, if another drive fails in this
volume group, data loss occurs. Unlike volume groups, the time for which the
disk pool is exposed to multiple drive failures during a reconstruction operation is
significantly reduced.
Reduced maintenance
– You can configure the storage management software to
send alert notifications when the configured capacity of a disk pool is reaching a
specified percentage of free capacity. Additionally, you do not need to manage
any hot spare drives. You can replace a set of drives during a scheduled
maintenance of the storage array.
Disk Pool Restrictions
Dynamic Segment Sizing (DSS) is not supported for disk pools.
You cannot change the RAID level of a disk pool. The storage management
software automatically configures disk pools as RAID level 6.
You cannot export a disk pool from a storage array or import the disk pool to a
different storage array.
All drive types (Fibre channel, SATA, SAS) in a disk pool must be the same.
All drive media types in a disk pool must be the same. Solid State Disks (SSDs)
are not supported.
You can protect your disk pool with Full Disk Encryption (FDE), but the drive
attributes must match. For example, FDE-enabled drives cannot be mixed with
FDE-capable drives. You can mix FDE-capable and non FDE-capable drives, but
the encryption abilities of the FDE drives cannot be used.
You can use Data Assurance (DA) capabilities of a drive set in a disk pool if all
drives match in their DA capabilities. However, you can use a drive set with
mixed attributes, but the DA capabilities of the drive can not be used.
If you downgrade the controller firmware version of a storage array that is
configured with a disk pool to a firmware version that does not support disk
pools, the volumes are lost and the drives are treated as unaffiliated with a disk
pool.
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