Re: NWSSTG size ?

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

on I, so how would you come up with how many to make up the 500GB, 5(100's)
or 2(250's) or ??  Keep in mind I may add disk down the road and need to
create another storage space.




On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:25 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > From the help on CRTNWSSTG I see:
> The range for FORMAT(*NTFS) is from 2 to 1024000 megabytes.
> The range for FORMAT types *FAT, *FAT32, and *OPEN is from 1
> to 1024000 megabytes.
> The range for FORMAT(*NTFSQR) is from 500 to 1024000
> megabytes.
>
> Looks like 1TB to me.
>
> Are you doing this for an lpar of i or for something in the iscsi/ixs
> genre?  I was in the camp of 1 big space for a guested lpar of i.  Jim
> Oberholtzer is trying to convince me of the error of my ways and, even
> though it's not one physical arm, it's still 1 pipe and you really want
> multiple smaller ones than one big one.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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> From:   Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Date:   11/01/2011 02:18 PM
> Subject:        NWSSTG size ?
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> Does anyone know the limits on these, thanks.
>
> Can they be 500GB.
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