Example of String Assignments

Referring to an example of string assignments can help you recognize string assignments for your Oracle FS System.

Drive Enclosures are distributed to strings based on the Drive Enclosure type. The following figure shows an example of four strings and the corresponding Drive Enclosure assignments for the following configuration:
  • Two DE2-24P Drive Enclosures with 400GB SSDs (performance)

  • Four DE2-24P Drive Enclosures with 900GB HDDs (performance)

  • Six DE2-24C Drive Enclosures with 4TB HDDs (capacity)

Table 1 Example of Drive Enclosure string assignments

Drive Enclosure and Drive type

String number

Drive Enclosure number within a string

DE2-24P

400GB SSDs (peformance)

String 1

DE 1

DE2-24P

900GB HDDs (performance)

String 1

DE 2

DE2-24C

4TB HDDs (capacity)

String 1

DE 3

DE2-24P

400GB SSDs (performance)

String 2

DE 1

DE2-24P

900GB HDDs (performance)

String 2

DE 2

DE2-24C

4TB HDDs (capacity)

String 2

DE 3

DE2-24P

900GB HDDs (performance)

String 3

DE 1

DE2-24C

4TB HDDs (capacity)

String 3

DE 2

DE2-24C

4TB HDDs (capacity)

String 3

DE 3

DE2-24P

900GB HDDs (performance)

String 4

DE 1

DE2-24C

4TB HDDs (capacity)

String 4

DE 2

DE2-24C

4TB HDDs (capacity)

String 4

DE 3