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OK, I'll give. How do you access this function??? Al Al Barsa, Jr. Barsa Consulting Group, LLC 400>390 914-251-1234 914-251-9406 fax http://www.barsaconsulting.com http://www.taatool.com "Jeff Silberberg" <jsilberberg@minds To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> pring.com> cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: pumping storage using DST midrange-l-admin@m idrange.com 07/24/2002 09:19 AM Please respond to midrange-l Jim, You did not indicate the release level, but in V5R2 (??) there is a pump while active in the OS. You can set up and move 99% of a disk with out shutting down the system and then do a relatively quick IPL to get the last 1%. This may be a lot less painful then DST pump in terms of down time in your shop.. JMS... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Damato" <jdamato@dollargeneral.com> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 7:06 PM Subject: pumping storage using DST > As mentioned in the RCLSTG thread, we'll be adding towers of "new" (slightly > less obsolete) disk technology to an ASP and retiring the original disks by > removing them from the ASP and letting the system pump the data to the new > disks. > > We're talking about around 800 GB on 116 existing disks - RAID5 configured 8 > GB 6713's. We'll be adding three 5065 cabinets with 135 disk - 17.5 GB > 4318's. The system is the aforementioned 740 12-way brontosaurus with the > older CPU's. > > Has anyone undertaken a move of this magnitude? I have no idea how long the > DST will take to move the data. I wouldn't be surprised if it took seven > hours or seven days. If anyone has any similar experiences that I could > scale up or down to use as a basis it would be very helpful. No one locally > among the CE's and BP's had anything to offer, and the support center > wouldn't go out on a limb. > > At the moment we're planning to take on 16 or 24 of the disk in one shot and > try to use it to extrapolate for the rest. If it doesn't look like we can > finish in our weekend processing time frame we may have to do it in chunks > over the next few weekends. > > Much thanks... > > -Jim > > James P. Damato > Manager - Technical Administration > Dollar General Corporation > <mailto:jdamato@dollargeneral.com> > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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