Re: Disk RAID/mirroring/hot spares, etc

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Between the good Dr. and my post I think you have it.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 4/15/2010 1:58 PM, DrFranken wrote:
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> Chris,
>
>     iASPs showed up in V5R3 and are for the most part software. They can,
> perhaps even should, be on separate RAID cards (for performance) but you
> can take a single drive and make it an iASP.  There are two 'flavors'
> one that holds only IFS objects and one that holds it's own database. It
> even gets a name in WRKRDBDIRE and you connect to it with SQL CONNECT.
> You can also use it with traditional RPG etc with SETASPGRP making that
> iASP available to your job.
>
> iASPs can be mirrored to another iASP without a SAN both locally and
> remotely.
>
>    - Larry
>
> On 4/15/2010 2:28 PM, Chris Bipes wrote:
>    
> > I need to learn more about these iASP's.  What iSeries hardware level do
> > you need to be at to create iASP's within your system?  What can be put
> > onto an iASP?  What version of OS400, excuse me, i5OS is required to
> > support iASP's?
> >
> > Can an iASP be mirrored to some remote SAN in near real time?
> >
> > Chris Bipes
> > Director of Information Services
> > CrossCheck, Inc.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
> > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 11:06 AM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Re: Disk RAID/mirroring/hot spares, etc
> >
> > Chris:
> >
> > By using iASP you would not have to create partitions.  You would of
> > course need the mirror software (PowerHA or option 41) to do it.
> >
> >
> >      
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