RE: pumping storage using DST

Hello Sue.

Any advice you could offer would be greatly appreciated.

-Jim

James P. Damato
Manager - Technical Administration
Dollar General Corporation
(615) 855-4375
<mailto:jdamato@dollargeneral.com>


-----Original Message-----
From: Sue Baker [mailto:smbaker@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:36 PM
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.