Re: Flash Copy questions

IBM i IS priced by core, not by LPAR, you can have as many as 20 LPAR per
core (don't expect much out of 0.05 core LPARs...)
FlashCopy should be managed by the HA software that I assume they are
trying to sell you into.
What I don't understand is why, for 12 disks, they want to make 2 RAID
sets. AFAIK, from what I've learned in the last two TechU, you ALWAYS use
DRAID with as many drives as you can.
If they want an IPL for the FlashCopy they are most likely not aware of
PowerHA and it's PowerHA FlashCopy Toolkit (from LabServices), it might end
up being a little expensive if you aren't really going to do HA...

Best Regards,

Roberto

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The SAN would be a Storwize V5010 SFF.

Specifically, they said IBMi/SWMA was priced per active core. I'm still
going to have them confirm.




-----Original Message-----
From: Musselman, Paul [mailto:pmusselman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2018 3:27 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Flash Copy questions

Justin--

What hardware is being recommended for your external storage??

IBMi/SWMA by hardware? Please double-check!

Re: Flash Copy at IPL - This may depend on how your external storage is
configured. I know that with a V7000 or V9000 we can Flash at any time....

Re: Flash Copy control LPAR: We're currently allocating 450 GB in three
150 GB extents. We're using 56% of that space. Not much more that the
OS/IBMi and the Flash Copy software. We were running with a lot less
(migrated from previous hardware) but needed more space to upgrade to V7R3.

Paul E Musselman
Sr. Technical Support Analyst
North America IT / iSeries Technical Support General Cable Corporation


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