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Because of the unique architecture of blade servers, consider the following when configuring your disk sub-system. Considerations include both drive type selection (SAS, SSD) and location of these drives in the server modules. Disks that are internal on most server modules are connected by a single port and run at a maximum speed of 3 Gbs.
Dual port drives provide additional fault tolerance that keep a drive online if the primary port fails. Currently SAS drives support two ports. SATA and SATA SSD drives are single ported.
In consideration of the differences between server modules and drive types, you should take the following into account when configuring your system:
Virtual drives must be composed of drives using the same interface only (for example: SAS only or SATA SSD only).
Use dedicated hot-spares only. Do not use global hot-spares unless they cannot be accessed by another failure domain.
Dedicated hot-spares should only include drive groups that reside in the same failure domain. Using this method, you can create a "virtual" global hot-spare for any domain.
Both SAS and SATA drives are supported in Sun Blade X4-2B; however, if used in the server module, the SAS drives do not run at full speed and cannot utilize the second port.
SAS and SATA drives can be mixed in the server module, but not amongst virtual drives. For example you could have a two drive SAS RAID 1 and a two drive SATA-SSD RAID 1 in a Sun Blade X4-2B.