Re: Host and Guest IBM i Partitions

You could probably get it to work in a fashion. When you create your
network storage spaces "mount" them so they use particular disk. Of
course, you would have multiple storage spaces for each guest. Then on
your guests you could use unit preference for storing the data on the
SSD's. The only things you couldn't be using on the guest is the actual
*SSD option for unit preference - you'd have to specify a particular
number(s). And none of the other imbedded things to help balance between
SSD and HDD.

For more information read up on how to put stream file data (aka ifs data
outside of /qsys.lib and certain other directories) on to SSD's.

However, is unit preference, outside of the *SSD option, respected
anymore? Or has that been deprecated? Meaning you can put a number in
there for compatibility reasons but it's ignored? So if I had a 10k HDD
as unit 1 and a 15k HDD as unit 2 if I put UNIT(2) on my CRTPF would it
really put it on unit 2 or would it say, "thanks for telling me that but
I don't give a rip"? The online help for UNIT says:
integer
A value ranging from 1 through 254 is equivalent to specifying
*ANY. A value of 255 is equivalent to specifying *SSD.
I guess that clarifies it. It is deprecated. So I don't think this
"trick" would work to get certain guest partition data on to SSD's. Ignore
my first paragraph - it's BS.


Rob Berendt