Veritas 5260 Appliance front panel drive configurations
The Veritas 5260 Appliance contains 3 NVMe solid state drives, and 8 SAS hard disk drives, which can be accessed from the appliance's front panel.
The drives that are located in slot 4 and slot 5 are configured as the RAID1, VOLUME0 device. These drives contain the appliance operating system and the Flex application along with the log files. You can hot-swap one of these drives at a time; however, you cannot operate the appliance if both drives are removed.
The drive in slot 6 acts as a hot spare for OS and log files. Slot 7 is a blank slot.
The drives in slots 0-3 and slots 8-10 store user data. They are configured as a RAID 6 array, which uses block-level striping with two parity blocks across each of the drives in the volume.
The appliance uses the drive that is located in slot 11 as a hot-spare drive. If one of the drives fails in slots 0-3 or slots 8-10, the appliance automatically initiates a RAID 6 rebuild operation. It rebuilds the RAID 6 array by using the hot-spare drive in slot 11. After you replace the failed drive, the appliance then copies the information from the drive in slot 11 to the new replacement drive. When the copy operation finishes, the drive in slot 11 again becomes the hot-spare drive.
Note:
The hot-spare drive size depends on the data drive size.
Warning:
The drives are pre-formatted before the appliance is shipped. Do not rearrange the drives from their original locations.
Table: Veritas 5260 Appliance front panel drive configurations
Slot | RAID Configuration | Drive size | Drive role | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0-3 8-10 | RAID 6 | 2TB (Available internal storage is 9.1TiB) 8TB (Available internal storage is 36.4TiB) | User data | |||
4,5 | RAID 1 | 1.92 TB | OS/log files | |||
6 | RAID 1 | 1.92 TB | Hot spare for OS and log drives | |||
7 | - | - | Blank | |||
11 | RAID 6 | 2TB 8TB | Hot spare for user storage data | |||