NEC Express5800/A2040d Configuration Manual

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CONFIGURATION GUIDE – NEC Express5800/A2040d, A2020d, A2010d, A1040dNEC Corporation Rev.2.0 – Oct. 2017 59■Internal DriveInternal Drive: Priority/Order of InstallationAt the initial server delivery, internal drives are installed with the following priority/order. If the orderedconfiguration is not in the scope of the rule, the drive will be delivered as not configured.◆1x RAID Controller・Slot 0 => Slot 1 => Slot 2 => Slot 3 => Slot 4 => Slot 5 => Slot 6 => Slot 7◆2x RAID Controllers For the 1st RAID Controller・Slot 0 => Slot 1 => Slot 2 => Slot3 For the 2nd RAID Controller・Slot 4 => Slot 5 => Slot 6 => Slot 7Note: The 2nd RAID Controller and the drives under the controller are not installed (configured) at theserver delivery.Conditions to Mix Internal Drives Mixing SSDs with different capacity or mixing HDDs with the same rotation speed is supported in theBTO configuration. Mixing HDDs with different rotation speed and mixing HDD and SSD is NOT supported in the BTOconfiguration. Cannot mix the different drives within a RAID group (pack) When defining hot spare disk under mixed drive configuration, need to set Dedicated Hot Spare perRAID group. Global Hot Spare is not available. Please refer to the following for further details.With different internal drives For 1x RAID Controller, 2 kinds of HDDs or HDD/SSD can be mixed. When SSD/HDD mixed, SSDs are installed first according to the above priority/order, then HDDsare installed in the remaining drive bays. When SSDs with different capacity are mixed, larger SSDs are installed first. When HDDs with different rotation speed, higher speed HDDs are installed first. If the speed isthe same, smaller capacity HDDs are installed first.Slot 0Slot 1Slot 2Slot 3Slot 4Slot 5Slot 6Slot 7Front View (lower)