RE: Reallocate storage

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

By storage I'll assume you mean disk storage.

The steps to remove and add back to the other can be done, as Chris said. 
Ask yourself this however, how many hours do you want to add in a DR 
situation to:
- Remove data on your Development box to free up space by saving to tape 
and deleting data.
- Remove the drives on your development lpar and readd them to the DR 
lpar.  Verify with your BP that your DR lpar can accept additional drives.
- Add the drives to raid and the storage pool.  This can take a few hours.
Not counting the time already reserved for your data restoration.

By guesting you can remove the need to physically move drives and verify 
raid and I/O cards but you'll still have the time to format and whatnot in 
three of the four steps above.

I suggest you run this through a DR test and see if you can really afford 
the time.  If you do not have the time to test, it won't work.  Do you 
really want to figure this out during a disaster, when you are sleep 
deprived?  Unless it's only important that this work in theory so that 
you'll pass an audit.  Much like a local company with a DR box and Mimix 
that hasn't tested it since install and didn't even notice for a few days 
that their DR box had powered off.

Also, the stuff you deleted off the development partition to make room; 
will that halt support and development?  For example, if I had to delete 
all my source files, and I keep no source on production, then it's really 
tough to work on some stuff stuck in a MSGW.  (Please, no debate on tricks 
like DBGVIEW, merits of keeping source on production and other stuff - 
allow me to use this as an example.)


Rob Berendt