RE: DSKBAL command

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken,

I've used BOTH...you're right, DSKBAL was a dedicated process but it did a
decent job and beat the heck outta having to do a reload..

ASPBAL on 4.4 is just plain sweet!  Someone deserves a cigar for that
one...runs during the production day, damn near nonexistant performance
impact and just nice.....

Don in DC

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Graap, Ken wrote:

> Dare - 
> 
> On V4R3..... I'd highly recommend restoring your entire system after you add
> your new disk... Anything short of this will result in an extremely
> unbalanced disk subsystem. I have been there and tried that. The disk
> balancing commands are suppose to be a lot better in V4R4, but in prior
> releases they require a dedicated system and are VERY SLOW....
> 
> Has anyone added disk on V4R4 or V4R5 and used the new disk balancing
> processes? I understand that they can balance disk in the background while
> the system is open to users.
> 
> Kenneth
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: oludare [mailto:oludare@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 8:36 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: DSKBAL command
> 
> 
> In addition to Joseph's question:
> 
> I'm on OS400 V3R7M0 looking to upgrade to V4R3.
> In a configured system with 1 4Gig mirrored DASD for the OS and RAID-5 with
> 16 arms.  How do you add more disks to the mirrored and more disks to the
> RAID without REINSTALLING or RESTORING the entire system.
> Which is the best approach to getting this upgrade done?
> 
> Dare
> 
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