Re: Hosting an IBM i partition - storage issues

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

That I believe is your issue, only 1 nwsd per 290B I am pretty sure and then
your other issue with how much you can allocate and assign.

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Adam Driver <ADriver@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Jack,
>
>
>
> Thanks for the response. I was wondering about the controllers with the
> multiple NWSDs. I'm assuming you're talking about the 290B comms adaptors?
> At the moment both NWSDs are using the same one, so that may be the issue.
>
>
>
> I've created a new server and client SCSI adaptor and changed the second
> NWSD to use the new 290B controller. It varies on successfully, and even
> automatically starts the partition. However, when the partition comes up the
> storage spaces don't seem to be visible as disks. I only see the ones from
> the first NWSD.
>
>
>
> Anything else you can think of that I might be missing?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> date: Tue, 10 May 2011 15:54:17 -0400
>
> from: Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> subject: Re: Hosting an IBM i partition - storage issues
>
>
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> Not sure on your hardware setup, sounds like you would either want 1 NWSD
>
> and additional storage spaces assigned to it with different sequence
> numbers
>
> or multiple NWSD's with different controllers and attached storage spaces.
>
> Not sure on the disk size limitations.  I am not sure what VIOS would give
>
> you unless you have alternative avenues to disk storage through it like
> (SAN
>
> etc) other than your current hardware disk limits.
>
>
>  Thanks
>
> Adam Driver
> IBM Certified Systems Administrator - System i
> Consultant - Infrastructure Technician
> Exacta Corporation
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