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Resource Planning

This topic describes the servers and disks planned for creating a RAID 10 array.

Servers

In this example, one Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) is created, and Table 1 shows the parameter specifications.
Table 1 ECS parameter configurations

Parameter

Configuration Information

Name

ecs-raid10

Image

CentOS 7.4 64bit

Specifications

General computing, s2.medium.2 (1 vCPU, 2 GB memory)

Elastic IP Address (EIP)

139.XX.XX.XX

Private IP Address

192.168.1.189

EVS Disks

Setting up RAID 10 requires at least 4 disks. Therefore, 4 EVS disks are created and attached to the ECS in this example.