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1: Storage System Overview
Note: Upgrading from 8.40 or 8.50 to 9.03 or later does not cause the new drive sizing
algorithm to be used. The drive sizing algorithm only applies to new configurations
where no logical units or previous configurations have existed.
RAID Fault Tolerance and Flexibility Features
• 1 to 16 disk drives can be combined into a pack (15+1 RAID group)
• 5 RAID Levels (0, 1, 0+1, 3, and 5)
Note: SGI does not support the mixing of any non-redundant (RAID 0) and
redundant (fault-tolerant) RAID levels within a drive pack (LUN).
• 32 LUNs (15+1 RAID group)
• 1 Gb/s or 2 Gb/s front end (FE) and back end (BE)
Fibre Channel arbitrated loop (FC-AL)
• Immediate LUN availability (ILA)
• Transparent disk drive rebuilds
• Variable stripe size per controller (8K, 16K, 32K, and 64K)
• Mirrored cache
• Drive roaming during power off
• Cache coherency
• Transparent failover and failback
• Automatic error recovery
• Write through, write back, or read ahead support
• Automatic detection of failed drives
• Automatic drive rebuilds, using “hot spare” drive
• Hot-swappable drives
• SAN mapping server to LUN mapping
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