
Technical Guide Book for PowerVault MD3200MD3220
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Table 7. RAID Configuration Support
RAID-0 RAID-1 and 1+0 RAID-5 RAID-6
Description
Data is striped
across multiple
physical disks.
to another
physical disk.
Physical disks operated
independently with data
and parity blocks
distributed across all
physical disks in the
group.
Physical disks operated
independently with data
and dual parity blocks
are distributed across all
physical disks in the
group.
Min # of physical
disks in a disk
group
1 2 3 4
Max # of physical
disks in a disk
group
96 96 30 30
% of raw capacity
100% 50% 66.67% to 96.67% 50% to 93.33%
Application IOPS | MB/s IOPS IOPS | MB/s IOPS | MB/s
Advantages
Performance due
to parallel
operation of the
access
Performance as
multiple requests
can be fulfilled
simultaneously
Good for reads, small
IOPS, many concurrent
IOPS and random I/Os.
Parity utilizes small
portion of raw capacity.
Same advantages as
RAID-5 but with better
data protection. Two
hard drives can fail
without losing access to
data.
Disadvantages
No redundancy.
One physical disk
fails, data is lost
Storage costs are
doubled
Writes are particularly
demanding
Overhead on writes will
be slightly more
demanding than RAID-5
Virtual Disk Configuration
A virtual disk is a logical structure on a storage array
for data storage. A virtual disk is created by slicing a
disk group into a stripe set with a defined capacity.
Each disk group supports up to one or more virtual disks
and a maximum of 256 virtual disks per MD3200 series
of storage system. During the virtual disk creation
process, the user specifies the capacity of the virtual
disk and the virtual disk name. Additional settings
include preferred controller ownership and a virtual
disk-to-LUN mapping parameter (See Storage
Partitioning section).
Disk
Disk
Disk
Disk
Disk Group A
Virtual Disk
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