Re: NWSSTG size ?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

IBM i LIC is optimized to use the physical drive sizes.  You can use 
anything you want.  It's just way more efficient to allow the system to 
use standard drive sizes.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 11/7/2011 8:35 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Why keep them close to physical disk size?
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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> <pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion 
> <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Date: 11/06/2011 10:42 PM Subject: RE: 
> NWSSTG size ? Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sorry for the 
> delay in responding. I was out in Las Vegas at ibmi DevCon, and my PC 
> died. I think Jim and Larry best summarized it, that you need a 
> minimum of 6 drives. If you have more, no problem. You don't want to 
> have less. You can make these whatever size you want, but I would keep 
> them close to IBM I sizes if possible. Pete Pete Massiello 
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> midrange-l-bounces+pmassiello-ml=itechsol.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx [ 
> mailto:midrange-l-bounces+pmassiello-ml=itechsol.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Jack Kingsley Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 11:14 AM 
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: Re: NWSSTG size ? 
> Pete, so if I am going to have 500GB defined and I divide it by 6 so I 
> would then have 6 (83GB) storage spaces, so what happens when I add 
> disk drives and need more storage spaces at that point. If I am going 
> to have a system with 14 LPAR(s) and each lpar is to have 500 GB of 
> disk then I will have 84 network storage spaces?? On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 
> at 5:17 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >  You guys better stop doubting Pete on this stuff - he's probably set
> > >  up half of these hosted partitions and he doesn't do things without
> > >  good reason......
> > >
> > >    - DrF
> > >
> > >  On 11/1/2011 4:55 PM,rob@xxxxxxxxx  wrote:
> > > >  >  That number of 6 seems to match one of the posts I found.  Thanks.
> > > >  >
> > > >  >
> > > >  >  Rob Berendt
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