Re: What's in ASP2 ?

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

ASP2 probably contains the network storage spaces which is the disk carved
out for your windows world which is really in your IFS I believe.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Jake Bruster <jakebruster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Question:
>
> How can I tell what is stored in ASP2?
>
>
> Background:
>
> A small shop with a first generation 520 running V5R4 with some
> disks separated into a user ASP (ASP2). The primary function of ASP2 was to
> support two integrated widows servers but these servers are no longer
> needed. There's a need to increase the disk capacity in the primary disk
> pool (ASP1) but the system is currently maxed out in the number of drives
> it
> can support without adding another disk expansion, etc. and adding back the
> disks from ASP2 will give the system enough extra disk capacity for at
> least
> another year.
>
> I know the virtual disks for the integrated servers are on ASP2 and
> I've generated an outfile from DSPOBJD OBJ(*ALL/*ALL) OBJTYPE(*LIB)
> and found a couple of archival type libraries stored on ASP2. How can I
> find
> out if any other items such as IFS folders are stored in ASP2?
>
> After a full system backup, I plan to delete the libraries stored in ASP2,
> delete the IWS configurations and the virtual disks and then look at the
> % capacity used on the ASP2 disks. Hopefully it will be at or very near
> zero. Then I will delete ASP2 and add the disks to the configuration for
> ASP1 with a capacity load balance included. Finally, I will restore the
> archival libraries deleted from ASP2 to ASP1.
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>
> Jake
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