Re: Adding disks to a raid set, how long is too long?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> So far IBM never thought that people would use the option to start
> raid, before installing LIC.

Wha?  Been doing this for years. On the old Power5s we'd temporarily 
connect ALL disk to the first partition, start RAID on EVERYTHING, then 
break them back out to the partitions as needed.

So you're saying if the load source is an SSD and you've already RAIDed 
them the install will fail?


        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 7/16/2014 7:09 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> So far IBM never thought that people would use the option to start raid,
> before installing LIC.  It's there, I do.  It works on spinning disks,
> just not on SSD's.  There is a side benefit to installing LIC first - you
> can select how it should create raid sets.  The option numbers may be
> different in DST than SST but in SST they are:
> 3. Work with disk units
> 2. Work with disk configuration
> 8. Work with device parity protection
> 7. Select parity optimization
>
> Select how you want the parity set optimized:
>
>
> The current parity optimization is:  Balanced
>
> Type choice, press Enter.
>    Select parity optimization
>
>       1. Availability
>       2. Balance
>       3. Capacity
>       4. Performance
>
>
> Rob Berendt