Re: Do all disks in a parity set have to belong to the same ASP or can some be in a 2nd ASP? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Do all disks in a parity set have to belong to the same ASP or can some be in a 2nd ASP?
From: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 23:10:48 -0500
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Best practice suggests that different ASPs should be on different RAID sets but there is nothing stopping you from doing so. I do it all the time on testing LPARs.

The issue with sharing a RAID set is that the I/O from one ASP can negatively affect the performance of the other ASPs.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 12/4/2015 5:01 PM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

Do all disks in a parity set have to belong to the same ASP or can some be in a 2nd ASP?

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