Hello, I just got my two new 760s with 2 shelves of 36G drives each. I am going through the setup and have a question on Volumes and Raid Groups. Can I create two shelves into one big raid group in order to take advantage of all the spindles, and then create two volumes on that raid group? Or do I have to create 2 raid groups (thus using an extra parity drive) and have 1 volume living on 1 raid group.
--Brian
Can I create two shelves into one big raid group in order to take advantage of all the spindles, and then create two volumes on that raid group?
No. A raid group belongs to one and only one volume. Spares are the only disk that can be shared between multiple volumes.
However, give some thought to whether you need separate volumes. Do you have different snap* (snapshot, snapmirror, snaprestore) requirements for each one? In most situations, a single volume w/ separate qtree's is sufficient. (though I still prefer root volumes of only 2 disks).
..kg..
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