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EVA number of disks

 
Frantisek Kysela
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тАО03-09-2006 11:54 PM

тАО03-09-2006 11:54 PM

EVA number of disks

Hi all,
I know that EVA need a minimum 8 of disks to operate. But what happen, when there is EVA with 8 disk and one of them fail.
Can EVA operate in this circumstance?

Thanks for reply
Frantisek
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Steven Clementi
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тАО03-10-2006 12:13 AM

тАО03-10-2006 12:13 AM

Re: EVA number of disks

Yhe minimum amount of disks needed to "create" a disk group is 8.

If one fails, thats ok.. the disk group is already created and has it's protection level set and etc.

The minimum amount to "operate" the EVA i think is 5 or maybe 6... not sure.


Steven
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Ivan Ferreira
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тАО03-10-2006 12:20 AM

тАО03-10-2006 12:20 AM

Re: EVA number of disks

If one disk fails the EVA will continue the operation, if you use vraid1 and vraid5. The 8 disks restriction is only to create the disk group. Also, you should know that when you create a disk group, you should (must) assign a protection level. If you assign protection level single, the space of two disks will be used as "spare space", if you select double, the space of four disks will be used as "spare space". Consider that in your configuration planning.
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Frantisek Kysela
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тАО03-10-2006 12:23 AM

тАО03-10-2006 12:23 AM

Re: EVA number of disks

Thanks
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