RE: STRASPBAL (Start ASP Balance)

["Ingvaldson, Scott" <SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have only run *CAPACITY balancing, not *USAGE.  My recommendation would be
to run it for 30 minutes at a time (during slow periods) until your drives
look balanced.  Disk balancing over time depends on how much of your data
gets changed, so I don't believe there is any way to guestimate.  As far as
effectiveness, you'll have to monitor WRKDSKSTS and watch the stats there.
What size are your drives?  If you are adding drives that are faster or more
than 2 steps bigger than your current ones you may have other issues to
consider.

Regards,

Scott Ingvaldson
AS/400 System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group


-----Original Message-----
date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 16:44:25 -0400
from: "Rick Rayburn" <the400man@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: STRASPBAL (Start ASP Balance)

Has anyone ran this command and measured its results in response time, load 
balancing and overall effectiveness?

I know it can run while your system is active with users...any feedback on 
that as well?

We have a 35 gig house and are adding 30 more...any data as to 
approximations when disk balancing would be completed if we DIDN'T run 
STRASPBAL?

Thanx all.

Rick Rayburn
   
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