Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication

Question 1

storage space components in Logical order

Answer 1

physical disks -> storage pool -> virtual disk (storage space) -> disk drive

Question 2

How many physical disks are used (Minimum) for:

• storage pool
• mirrored disk
• virtual disk with parity
• three-way mirroring

Answer 2

storage pool: 1
mirrored disk: 2
virtual disk with parity: 3
three-way mirroring: 5