HP StorageWorks SN6000 HP StorageWorks Simple San Connection manager user guid - Page 144
Simple SAN Connection Manager supports Vraid6 only for the EVA4400/6400/8400, Vraid0
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Vraid0 Vraid1 Vraid5 Vraid6 A virtualization technique for EVA storage that provides no data protection. Data host is broken down into chunks and distributed on the disks comprising the disk group from which the virtual disk was created. Reading and writing to a Vraid0 virtual disk is very fast and makes the fullest use of the available storage, but there is no data protection (redundancy) unless there is parity. A virtualization technique for EVA storage that provides the highest level of data protection. All data blocks are mirrored or written twice on separate physical disks. For read requests, the block can be read from either disk, which can increase performance. Mirroring takes the most storage space because twice the storage capacity must be allocated for a given amount of data. A virtualization technique for EVA storage that uses parity striping to provide moderate data protection. Parity is a data protection mechanism for a striped virtual disk. A striped virtual disk is one where the data to and from the host is broken down into chunks and distributed on the physical disks comprising the disk group in which the virtual disk was created. If the striped virtual disk has parity, another chunk (a parity chunk) is calculated from the set of data chunks and written to the physical disks. If one of the data chunks becomes corrupted, the data can be reconstructed from the parity chunk and the remaining data chunks. Vraid6 has the highest availability of any Vraid type. It uses dual parity to provide protection from simultaneous failure of two disk drives within a parity stripe. Vraid6 stripes have four data blocks and two parity blocks. A new disk group type has been added to facilitate Vraid6 support. The enhanced disk group can simultaneously contain virtual disks of all supported Vraid types. The legacy disk group type supports all Vraid types except for Vraid6. The disk group type is set at the time of creation and cannot be changed after that time. Note: Simple SAN Connection Manager supports Vraid6 only for the EVA4400/6400/8400 running firmware version 9500000 or later. 144