RE: NWSSTG size ?

Rob,

Jim is right. You will get better performance when you have at least 6 virtual disks defined for a virtual partition. That is the magic number. Take it to the bank.

Pete


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 2:25 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: NWSSTG size ?

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.


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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.