RE: How long to move a disk from one ASP to another

Phil

Adding a disk to an ASP doesn't take long.  What will take the time is
the 'logical remove' of the disk from its current ASP.  I would figure
ten/fifteen minutes or so per drive.  That's high, but it should be good
for planning.

Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 11:45 AM
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> Subject: How long to move a disk from one ASP to another
>
>
>
> The Backup and Recovery Manual has a section (8.2.4) that describes
how to
> move
> a disk from one ASP to another using DST.  The process looks pretty
> straightforward.  One of the bullet points says "The system may take a
> long time
> to move the unit........" but it gives no indication of what "a long
time"
> is.
>
> Has anyone done this?  Are we talking 5 minutes or 5 hours?
>
> I need to reconfigure several disks.  Some are 4GB, others are 8 GB
and
> they are
> running about 50% of capacity.
>
> Phil
>
>
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