Re: NWSSTG size ?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not 6 EXACTLY but 6 MINIMUM.  Need more disk? Just create another 
volume. Link it. Go to the Guest and add it to the ASP. Done. :-)

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis


On 11/2/2011 2:59 PM, Jack Kingsley wrote:
> I really appreciate the feedback, but what happens when I add drives, I am
> hoping to conform to the 6 drive approach if it serves the best purpose
> which I am not doubting.  I am trying to understand the (what do I do) now
> that I have added drives.  Let me guess, I need to save the workload, break
> the storage spaces and recreate them to evenly match out to 6, then reload
> what I saved??
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Jim Oberholtzer<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > Answer Yes you would.  Although I would modify the 6 drives to a
> > standard size that IBM i uses rather than 83GB.
> >
> > We've had the discussion about why you use multiple drives ad nauseam
> > before.  And yes, I think Pete has set up more hosted environments than
> > anyone I know.
> >
> > Jim Oberholtzer
> > Chief Technical Architect
> > Agile Technology Architects
> >
> >
> > On 11/2/2011 10:14 AM, Jack Kingsley wrote:
> > > Pete, so if I am going to have 500GB defined and I divide it by 6 so I
> > > would then have 6 (83GB) storage spaces, so what happens when I add disk
> > > drives and need more storage spaces at that point.  If I am going to
> > have a
> > > system with 14 LPAR(s) and each lpar is to have 500 GB of disk then I
> > will
> > > have 84 network storage spaces??
> > >
> > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:17 PM, DrFranken<midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>   wrote:
> > >
> > > > >   You guys better stop doubting Pete on this stuff - he's probably set
> > up
> > > > >   half of these hosted partitions and he doesn't do things without good
> > > > >   reason......
> > > > >
> > > > >     - DrF
> > > > >
> > > > >   On 11/1/2011 4:55 PM,rob@xxxxxxxxx  wrote:
> > > > > >   >   That number of 6 seems to match one of the posts I found.
> >   Thanks.
> > > > > >   >
> > > > > >   >
> > > > > >   >   Rob Berendt
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