Re: VIOS Disk Sizes

[Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx>]

We have run this way for sometime and it works for us.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:22 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Frankly the fact that you 'may' go with a SAN at some untold date in the
> future is no reason to host disk for IBM i from VIOS.
> Tried VIOS hosting disk for IBM i.  Just not recommended for internal
> disk.
>
> All this is just my humble opinion of course.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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> From:   Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   01/12/2015 11:32 PM
> Subject:        VIOS Disk Sizes
> Sent by:        "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> We finally received our Power8. We it with VIOS as the Primary OS and
> ordered 146GB drives for the CEC and 300GB drives for the EXP24s.. Down
> the
> road we 'may' go with a SAN so the VIOS now even with internal disk.
>
> As I went to install VIOS I was looking for the 'two' 146GB drives to
> install on. What the system shows is a pair of 133GB drives. The 300GB
> drives are reporting in as 270GB drives.
>
> Can someone Enlighten ms as why with a straight out of the box fresh from
> IBM system, I have lost 10% of my disk space? I thought with VIOS I would
> be getting the advertised GB at least at this stage..
>
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