Design of disk groups on VxRail S-Series
This section will discuss the disk group design for VxRail V-Series. Figure 5.18 shows the front view of VxRail S670. There are 16 disk slots on VxRail S670; disk slots 0 to 11 (front view) are used for the capacity tiers, and disk slots 0 to 3 (rear view) are used for the cache tier. VxRail S-Series only supports a hybrid configuration. The capacity disks only support 3.5” SAS/SATA, and the cache disks only support 2.5” SSD or NVMe:
Figure 5.18 – The first option of disk groups configuration in VxRail S670
In the release of VxRail 7.0.201 and later, VxRail S670 supports two options of disk groups:
- Option 1: The two vSAN disk groups, which contain one cache disk and up to six capacity disks per disk group. Table 5.9 shows a four-disk-groups configuration for each disk slot in VxRail S670:
Disk Groups
Cache Tier
Capacity Tier
Disk Group 1
Slot 2 (rear view)
Slots 0 to 5 (front view)
Disk Group 2
Slot...
