About Storage Trays

Storage trays contains physical disks. Each tray has a minimum of 7 and a maximum of 14 disks. The trays are identified by whether they contain a RAID controller:

The following figure shows the symbols for a controller tray and an expansion tray.

A diagram to show the graphic conventions for a controller tray and an expansion tray.

The following table shows how the trays are arranged in the supported array configurations.

 
Array Configuration
Number of Controller Trays
Number of Expansion Trays
2x2
2
0
2x4
2
2
2x6
2
4

The following figure shows how the trays can be configured.

A diagram of each array configuration, which show the number and order of the controller trays and the expansion trays.

To see the current storage trays, go to the Storage Tray Summary page, as described in Displaying Storage Tray Information.

To see the current storage arrays, go to the Storage Array Summary page, as described in Displaying Array Information.

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