The ME5 supports up to two Pools which always means a collection of disks. Each pool will assign to one controller module. This mean if you only create one Pool because you have only a small number of disks than this controller will do all the work and pushing the data and the 2nd. one will just sits there and waiting for a failover event. So you have to do simple math first what happens if you spilt your 13 disks into half and based on the choosen protection level (aka RAID) and maybe a hotspare drive what would be left and does the space meets your requirements about your 5.5TB volume. The world will not stop spinning if you assign all 13 disks to Pool "A". The world will not stop spinning if you doesnt have the right number of disks combined with your RAID level and if you violence the "power of two" rule. You only will loose performance. But with the selected 10K spinning disks instead of SSDs performance was not at first place i think. The ME5 can support 2 different modes called "Virtual" or "ADAPT".  Read the manual about .... because we deal with 2.5" (ssd) drives rather than 20TB disk i choose the "Virtual" mode together with a RAID5 or 6. So i can only speak for the virtual mode right now: * The Snapshot handling will be a big step backwards compared to the SC. But that will only my humble opionen.   Regards,Joerg
Hi Folks We have a SCv2020 and I need to migrate all VMs to ME5024. I am implementing the ME5024 however I have some questions. 1- Must I create 2 Pools - A and B or I can use only one pool? What is the impact of this? 2- Which RAID are more indicate when I create the Pools? 3- I have 13 HDs which 1.2TB each. Do I need to allocate all 13TB or I can allocating according my necessity?       3.a- Example: I have a server with c:\88Gb and d:\4T in total almost 4.5T I think I don´t need to allocate 13TB, but I                    can allocate 5.5T and increased if I need. Am I right?   Any one could help me to understand that, please?   Thank you Wilson
Storage ME5024 - Pool, Raid