Hi Steven, The devices that you create that occupy the physicalspace on the disk (TDAT's in the case of thin provisioning) can be RAID1, RAID5 (3+1 or 7+1) or RAID6 (6+2 or 14+2). These are the only RAID types supported by the VMAX. However, when it comes to thin provisioning, all the TDATs assigned to a pool are striped together. This is done at a layer above the physical disk RAID. So with RAID 5 TDEVS in a thin pool, it's a bit like RAID50.
Hello all,   I'm sorry if this is a trivial question; I tried searching through the VMAX 10K spec sheets, and though these forums without finding an answer. We are upgrading from Equallogics to a VMAX 10k, we're very excited.  I was wondering if RAID 50 was available on the VMAX 10K? According to the spec sheet RAID 5 is available. While I'm new to the EMC platform to me it would make sense that if you put several RAID 5 disk groups into a thin pool you would accomplish (about) the same effect?  Am I totally missing something here?  Thank you kindly, Steven
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