Hi to all ,
We got a customer with FAS 2040 with dual controller ,and a disk shelf with 24 SAS disks each with size 450Gb.Whenwe tried to set up that storage ,our mind has been confused with the aggr creation.When we opened up the storage each controller had a aggr0 with root volume, Our customer has the following needs , they want the most of the harddisk space they can get without any loose in the disk protection.
So we thought it would be better to have a single aggr (aggr0) with the root volume, and othe volumes are in that aggr .And to have that aggr0 with RaidDP and had it with 1 or 2 spare disks.
But since we have 2 controller is it possible to have a single aggr or when we create it like that ,is not it will be a active/passive storage situation.
Another solution was to have a one aggr in each controller as aggr0 and aggr1 with RaidDP ,and spare 1 disks for them, but this solution will cause us to loose more disks then we thought.
So we are confused a little bit with that stuff, and another question is releated with the root volume ,As far as i knew it will be better to have the root aggr and root volume it is much better way to use .In our above senarios we had the root vol in the production volumes .So what do you advice us to do with those questions.
And i want to mention that ,the fas2040 will be used as 4 or 5 tb with CIFS in the Active directory domain ,and the rest will be configured as a LUN for Vmware Clustered Servers..
Thanks a lot.
