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Sue, You're message came to me. I wonder if gmane's name mangling is messed up. Can you try the reply again and I'll let you know if I get it. -Walden David, You're CC'd on this incase gmane's mangling is indeed messed up. The 'To Name' on the message appears to be Jim, and the gmane address is public-midrange-l=Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/w@gmane.org but the e-mail came to me. -Walden ------------ Walden H Leverich III President Tech Software (516) 627-3800 x11 (208) 692-3308 eFax WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com http://www.TechSoftInc.com Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur. (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.) -----Original Message----- From: Sue Baker [mailto:smbaker@us.ibm.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 15:36 To: Jim Damato Subject: Re: pumping storage using DST Jim, there are a few things that may be of assistance to you. Some of your comments later in the thread make me wonder if they might be helpful or not. Please reply with a phone number so we can chat about it. Sue Baker iSeries Advanced Technical Support Rochester, MN On 23 Jul 2002, you wrote in gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.midrange: > 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... _______________________________________________ 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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