RE: LPAR - DASD 720 - 820 - Moving Data

Jeffrey,

Mileage may vary because moving data within DST occurs in parallel and
the time to move two drives is less than twice the time for one drive.
If you allocate a few hours in your plan you would be safe and it would
probably take less.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> On Behalf Of Jeffry Kennedy
> Subject: Re: LPAR - DASD 720 - 820 - Moving Data
>
> Thanks for the input. Do you have any idea it would take using the DST
> (assumming about 40% full) ?
>
> Andy Nolen-Parkhouse wrote:
>
> > Jeffrey,
> >
> > If I understand your question correctly, you are planning on an
upgrade
> > from a 720 to an 820, maintaining two RAID controllers and fifteen 4
GB
> > drives on the 720 chassis as a migration tower.
> >
> > Once the 820 is up and running, you would use the dedicated service
> > tools (DST) to pump the data from the 4 GB drives to the 8 GB
drives,
> > and then logically remove the drives from the configuration.  That
would
> > then make them available for assignment to a partition.  (This is
overly
> > simplified but true in spirit.)  Check the Backup and Recovery
manual
> > for specific details on using DST to move data.
> >
> > Alternatively, once the system is running on the 820, you could
perform
> > two complete saves, partition the box, and restore the save to your
8 GB
> > drives.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andy Nolen-Parkhouse
> >