HP ProLiant DL100 G2 Data Protection Storage Server administration guide (June 2006)

Microsoft Disk Manager is used to present the HDDs to the system as dynamic disks. The primary
OS volume resides on disk 0 and is mirrored on disk 1 (see Figure 9). The remaining space on the
HDDs is not used by DPM.
Physical Disk 0 Physical Disk 1
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Logical Disk 1
Primary Operating System Disk
RAID 1
Figure 9 DL100 G2 two -HDD software RAID
Thedrivesareconfigured by default into one logical volume that contains the OS as described in Table 6.
Table 6 DL100 G2 t wo -HDD configuration
Logical
disk
RAID level
Size/allocation
Purpose
1
RAID 1
15 GB across physical drives 0, 1
OS
If the operating system has a failure that might result from corrupt system files, a corrupt registry, or the
system hangs during boot, refer to "System installation and recovery" on page 59.
Be sure to back up your user d ata, a nd then use the System Installation and Recovery DVD to restore the
server to the factory default state as soon as conveniently possible.
External s
torage drives
The MSA20
drives for the DL100 G2 3TB and 6TB models are configured for hardware RAID
fault tol
erance using the HP Smart Array 6402 RAID Controller. The HDDs are hot-pluggable and
hot-swappable.
The MSA2 0 enclosures are e ach preconfigured with two R A ID 5 logical drives. Depending on the model,
a total of two or four RAID 5 logical drives are available for use by the DPM software.
Table 7 DL100 G2 3TB Data Protection Storage Server MSA20 drive configuration
Logical
drive
RAID level
Size/al
location
Purpose
Array A
1
RAID 5
2 TB across the array. Backup
data
2
RAID 5
Remain
ing space across the
array.
Backup
data
NOTE:
For each array, one hot spare drive is available.
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