Dell PowerVault DL2000 - Manual (Page 15)

storage enclosure slots except in the case when a failed drive has been temporarily removed for replacement.
Automatic disk configuration does not begin on a given disk group until every slot in the disk group is occupied by a disk.
The optional hot spares, if present, must reside in the indicated slot.
PowerVault DL2000 Disk Configurations
The PowerVault DL2000 supports SATA drives only. The operating system resides on a RAID 1 (mirrored) virtual disk
using slots 0 and 1. Slots 2 through 5 are not available for automatic configuration but can be manually configured, if
required.
Figure 6. Dell PowerVault DL2000 and DL2100 Disk Slots
PowerVault DL2100 Disk Configurations
The PowerVault DL2100 supports SATA drives only. The operating system resides on a RAID 1 (mirrored) virtual disk
using slots 0 and 1. See figure “Dell PowerVault DL2000 and DL2100 Disk Slots”.
• If the DL2100 system shipped with a SAS 6i/R internal storage controller, slots 2 through 5 are not available for
automatic disk configuration but can be manually configured.
• If the DL2100 system shipped with a PERC 6/i internal storage controller, the standard configuration is comprised
of a single disk group occupying slots 2 through 5. Automatic disk configuration creates one or more RAID 5
virtual disks on this disk group.
PowerVault MD1000 Storage Enclosure Disk Configurations
The PowerVault MD1000 supports SATA drives only. The standard configuration is comprised of a hot spare in slot 0, a
disk group occupying slots 1 through 7, and a disk group occupying slots 8 through 14. Automatic disk configuration
creates one or more RAID 5 virtual disks on each disk group.
Figure 7. Dell PowerVault MD1000 Storage Enclosure Disk Slots
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