Teamsite 6.7.1 on Windows 2003

We purchased new servers for our TeamSite environment and our Server Folks are telling me RAID 0+1 is the same as RAID 1+0 from the vendor perspective.

However I heard IWOV will not support RAID 1+0

Has anyone installed RAID 1+0 and been supported by IWOV? What other disk configurations are considered good for high i/o operations that are supported by IWOV

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nipper

Never tried it, however it seems like it *should* work (from Wikipedia):

RAID 0+1: striped sets in a mirrored set (minimum four disks; even number of disks) provides fault tolerance and improved performance but increases complexity. The key difference from RAID 1+0 is that RAID 0+1 creates a second striped set to mirror a primary striped set. The array continues to operate with one or more drives failed in the same mirror set, but if drives fail on both sides of the mirror the data on the RAID system is lost.

RAID 1+0: mirrored sets in a striped set (minimum four disks; even number of disks) provides fault tolerance and improved performance but increases complexity. The key difference from RAID 0+1 is that RAID 1+0 creates a striped set from a series of mirrored drives. In a failed disk situation RAID 1+0 performs better because all the remaining disks continue to be used. The array can sustain multiple drive losses so long as no mirror loses both its drives.

Now that does not mean IWOV will support it. They do not test against it so they cannot verify that it is truly the same as 0+1

Cannot be of much more help than that. IWOV is usually pretty good about working with someone if your config is close to the specs.

Andy

Migrateduser

IWOV support basically said that they recommend the fastest disk configuration possible but they have no specific dependancy on configuration as long as it meets our business needs.

Migrateduser

It shouldn't matter what file system you use, as long as Windows and the interwoven file system can handle it.