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Author: | Koobster [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 7:12 pm ] |
Post subject: | Disk shelves dont have the same amount of drives - 8400 |
I am taking over a 3PAR 8400 4node from a department that is no longer with us. It was initally installed but wasnt used and just sat in the datacenter. It has a weird layout as it has 40 10k drive and a total of 8 disk enclosures (2 shelves from the 4 node controller + 6 additional shelves). So half of the disk enclosures have 4 drives and the other half has 6 drives. I think they were going to only run raid 1 cpgs. Anyways what are some issues that i can expect with this system not having the same amount of even drives on each enclosure? Obviously i can see this effecting the CPG configuration and HA choices as well as maybe unbalanced load for the node pairs.... but what else? |
Author: | MammaGutt [ Wed Mar 21, 2018 2:22 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Disk shelves dont have the same amount of drives - 8400 |
With large set size and ha cage you could end up with capacity not being able to achieve ha cage. If is split so one node pair has 6 disks in the enclosures and the other has 4 you will see more data stored per drive on the nodes with 4-disk cages. I'm guessing someone was thinking 40 is dividable by 8 and forgot that drives need to be installed in pair per cage. |
Author: | Koobster [ Wed Mar 21, 2018 1:23 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Disk shelves dont have the same amount of drives - 8400 |
MammaGutt wrote: With large set size and ha cage you could end up with capacity not being able to achieve ha cage. If is split so one node pair has 6 disks in the enclosures and the other has 4 you will see more data stored per drive on the nodes with 4-disk cages. I'm guessing someone was thinking 40 is dividable by 8 and forgot that drives need to be installed in pair per cage. I checked PD/cage ownership and each node pair owns the same amount. 2 drive cages w/ 4 drives, and 2 drive cages w/ 6 drives. |
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