RE: Adding DASD to a 520

Yeah, I thought it would be a substantial undertaking, so I'll just wait for the tech guys to show up and do the work.

Thanks for your input.

/b;

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DrFranken
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 1:20 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Adding DASD to a 520

Brian,
Sounds like you're adding an 0595/5095, memory, and Disks. This is
going to require an outage anyway so do it all at once. Disk units can
be added in open slots on RAID cards with available capacity without
downtime but this (especially memory and expansion units) requires an
outage. In addition cabling rules and memory rules differ by system and
by how many of each you already have installed. This large of an
upgrade is best left to an expert.

My $02.

Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
DrFranken@xxxxxxxxxxxx


On 7/6/2010 12:35 PM, Brian Piotrowski wrote:

Hi All,

We received in our additional DASD for our 520. We have a 595 disk expansion unit as well into which these modules will be placed.

Can someone point me to some resources on how I can install these DASD modules? Does the 400 need to be taken down to install the modules, or is it a simple plug and play operation with some additional commands that need to be run from the console? Also, should this install be done during a maintenance window, or would it impact production? I'm guessing yes since it will need to rebuild the array and "level out" the data across all disks.

I'll probably wait until our VAR technician arrives to install them, but if it's easy enough to do on my own I might consider it. We do have additional main storage that needs to be installed, so I might just do that all at once.

Thanks!

/b;

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