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Combining 1U servers

flitebynite

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I'm new at this K stuff and I have a question.
I have two 1U servers: a 4x4TB and 4x6TB and my understanding is each 1U server will reserve a disk drive as a spare in case it has to replicate a failed drive in it's chasis. Which means I have a 4TB and a 6TB drive as backups totaling 10 TB's out of the 40TB total. Correct?

Is there is any way of connecting / combining the two 1U servers in series rather than parallel to create one Server (virtually), so that there is only one backup drive for the combined server pair, rather than one in each 1U?
Does that make sense?

If I had a 3U this wouldn't be an issue, but here I am.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Chris
 
No, the disk sets are mutually exclusive. That being said, as long as they are both part of the same system, you will see them as one server (your movie list will be contiguous).
 
flitebynite said:
I'm new at this K stuff and I have a question.
I have two 1U servers: a 4x4TB and 4x6TB and my understanding is each 1U server will reserve a disk drive as a spare in case it has to replicate a failed drive in it's chasis. Which means I have a 4TB and a 6TB drive as backups totaling 10 TB's out of the 40TB total. Correct?

Is there is any way of connecting / combining the two 1U servers in series rather than parallel to create one Server (virtually), so that there is only one backup drive for the combined server pair, rather than one in each 1U?
Does that make sense?

If I had a 3U this wouldn't be an issue, but here I am.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Chris
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The 1U uses RAID to protect content and uses the “equivalent” of one drive of memory spread across all the drives. There is not one extra drive sitting empty.

So, no, there is no way of combining two 1U servers and freeing up space for content.

John
 
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