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Subject: Re: Disk Block Size
From: Holger Scherer <hs@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:37:53 +0200
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Hi Evan,

short answer: 528b Blocks on IBM i - if your SAN runs on 512b Disks, you will have increased I/O.
There are special disks and storage systems for IBM i based I/O

-h

Am 29.04.2016 um 02:47 schrieb Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>:

Hi All

I am doing some sizing work to attempt to quantify the effect of replacing
internal disks with SAN backed storage. Basically we want to quantify the
IO on the i and then model that using SAN sizing tools (e.g. Disk Magic)

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