Design of disk groups on VxRail V-Series
Figure 5.14 shows the front view of VxRail V670F. There are 24 disk slots on VxRail V670F; disk slots 0 to 19 are used for the capacity tiers, and disk slots 20 to 23 are used for the cache tier. The capacity disks support SAS/SATA/SSD, and the cache disks support SSD and NVMe SSD:
Figure 5.14 – Front view of VxRail V670F
In the release of VxRail 7.0.201 and later, VxRail V670F supports two options of disk groups:
- Option 1: Four vSAN disk groups, which contain one cache disk and up to five capacity disks per disk group. Table 5.7 shows a four-disk-group configuration for each disk slot in VxRail V670F:
Disk Groups
Cache Tier
Capacity Tier
Disk Group 1
Slot 20
Slots 0 to 4
Disk Group 2
Slot 21
Slots 5 to 9
Disk Group 3
Slot 22
Slots 10 to 14
Disk Group 4
Slot 23
Slots 15 to 19
Table 5.7 – The first option of disk groups configuration in VxRail V670F
- Option 2: In Figure 5.15, the three vSAN disk groups...
