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Volume Limitation on 2100?
I'm considering getting a 2100 to store our VMware VDR backups (basically backups of virtual machines over CIFS or NFS) but before I do I was wondering if there was a volume limitation (as in the numb...
there are 2 volumes per drive.
so you can create
2x raid 5, 4 disks
8x raid 0, individual disks (no redundancy)
4x raid 1, 2 pair disks (mirrored)
and so on, in whatever combination you want as limited by 2 volumes per disk
I don't think there is a limit to number of iscsi targets, so if you need a dozen 400g volumes, you might consider iscsi if its appropriate.
so you can create
2x raid 5, 4 disks
8x raid 0, individual disks (no redundancy)
4x raid 1, 2 pair disks (mirrored)
and so on, in whatever combination you want as limited by 2 volumes per disk
I don't think there is a limit to number of iscsi targets, so if you need a dozen 400g volumes, you might consider iscsi if its appropriate.
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