EMC aditional DAE installation and Meta creation

[vinodan]

We have a EMC CX3-40 storage .We are planning add an additional disk enclosure . It has 15 x 300 GB 15 K RPM FC drives . I am planning to do below mentioned steps .

1. Install the DAE and drives using NST .
2. Create 3 raid groups , 1-5 drives in 1st Raid Group, 6-10 2nd Raid group, 11-14 3rd Raid group and 15th disk hot spare . I am planning for Raid 5 for these raid groups .

IS it a good configuration ?. We cannot create spanned raid groups ( spanned across multiple enclosures , since they are already used and cannot even touchhhhhh ...... )

Am planning to create 3 luns in each above mentioned raid groups having 150 GB each and going to merge to make a meta with stripe . As i mentioned 3 rd raid group is having 4 drives and other two raid groups are having 5 each . Can i create meta using stripe ?.

One hot spare is ok for this ?

Thanks in advance ....

Vinod

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi Vinod,

Whilst people here might be able to help, this forum is for the discussion of HP storage products, not EMC's.

Cheers,

Rob

[IBaltay · Accepted solution]

Hi,
here is the EMC CX3-40 documentation page:
https://powerlink.emc.com/nsepn/webapps/btg548664833igtcuup4826/km/appmanager/km/secureDesktop?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=freeformlinks2&internalId=0b0140668015c222&_irrt=true

(but you need to register to the EMC Powerlink)