HP NetRAID-4M Controller - Manual (Page 174)

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Command Line Interface User’s Guide
The RAID software supports three types of multi-level containers:
■ Multi-level stripe sets
■ Multi-level volume sets
■ Multi-level mirror sets
The minimum size of a container is 10MB.
Note: On a Windows 2000(basic disk only) system, a
container is usable only if its size is greater than 16 MB;
otherwise, the container type must be a dynamic disk.
The RAID software also supports snapshots of multi-level
containers.
The following sections describe how to create these multi-level
containers. See Chapter 10, Working with Snapshot Containers, for
information on snapshots of multi-level containers.
Working with Multi-level Stripe Sets
A multi-level stripe set is a container whose top level container is a
stripe set. You can create the following types of multi-level stripe set:
■ A stripe set of mirror sets
■ A stripe set of volume sets
■ A stripe set of stripe sets
■ A stripe set of RAID-5 sets (RAID-50)
Working with a Stripe Set of Mirror Sets
A stripe set of mirror sets is a multi-level container made up of a
top-level stripe set and two or more underlying mirror sets of equal
size. A stripe set of mirror set’s data is redundant. See the Flexible
Array Storage Tool User’s Guide for a complete description of a stripe
set of mirror sets and other container concepts.
To work with a stripe set of mirror sets, you must understand:
■ The stripe set of mirror set attributes you can specify
■ How to create a stripe set of mirror sets