Re: Host and Guest IBM i Partitions

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This makes complete sense.

Hypothetically suppose it DID pass along that the provided storage was 
based on SSD. Then the guest OS would know it was SSD and therefore 
would attempt to use the storage in that manner.  While it likely would 
make some difference in performance the fact that there is now another 
layer of IBM i between the SSD devices and the guest O/S would partially 
nullify the performance of the SSDs.  It wouldn't be a configuration I 
would use for anything beyond a benchmark.

    - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

On 2/8/2012 3:28 PM, Sue Baker wrote:
> Kirk Goins wrote on Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:28:32 GMT:
>
> > If I have both HDs and SSDs in the Host IBM i Partition and if
> > I create a Storage Space for a Guest on a SSD, will the guest
> > know it's an SSD?
> Absolutely not.  IBM i host does not pass along to any client LPAR
> information about the physcial storage.
>
> Sue