Design of disk groups on VxRail P-Series

Figure 5.10 shows the front view of VxRail P670F. There are 28 disk slots; disk slots 0 to 19 and slots 24 to 27 are used for the capacity tiers, and disk slots 20 to 23 are used for the cache tier. The capacity disks support SAS/SSD, and the cache disks support SSD and NVMe SSD:

Figure 5.10 – Front view and rear view of VxRail P670F

Important Note

In Dell’s 15th-generation PowerEdge server, only three models of the All-Flash node exist in the VxRail P-Series; they are VxRail P670F, P675F, and P675N.

In the release of VxRail 7.0.201 and later, VxRail P670F supports two options of disk groups:

• Option 1: The first configuration is of four vSAN disk groups, which contain one cache disk and up to five capacity disks per disk group. Table 5.4 shows a four-disk-groups configuration for each disk slot in VxRail E660/F/N:

  Disk Groups	Cache Tier	Capacity Tier
  Disk Group 1	Slot 20	Slots 0 to 4
  Disk Group 2...