Re: NWSSTG size ?

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you, so 6 minimum.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:16 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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