Hello,  In Clariion, first 5 disks are for FLARE. In VNX, first 4 disks are for OE (Operating Environment). In VNX, we no more use the term FLARE.  User is free to choose RAID type while configuring the disk drives.  Hope the following documents help  This white paper provides recommended best practices for installing and configuring VNX unified systems for best performance [URL] Host Connectivity Guide for VMWare ESX Server [URL] The VNX5100 Hardware Information Guide [URL] This White Paper introduces the EMC VNX series unified platform [URL]
Hi All, We are planned to buy EMC VNX 5100 (9 x 600GB, 15K SAS Drives). Which RAID group configured by default in VNX5100? I aware first five disks is the "vault,PSM,Flare DB,OS" area. How much space occupied for vault area and one morething,we have Brocade SAN switch with 8 Ports licensed. already we connected 4 ports to VMware hosts and 2 ports for existing EMC celerra NX4 array.we have only two ports remaining. After purchase VNX storage, can i connect the array to those two ports?can i configure 4 Vmware hosts as a storage group in two different array.is both array's LUNs will visible to all 4 hosts? Please suggest me. please note that no zoning configured in san switch.
EMC VNX5100 Raid group and connectivity