Re: IBM i Disk system statistics

Tell those Milleneals about how the i is on a different chip set than the
Windows servers. Meaning no viruses that infect Windows servers. Plus your
drives might just be old. I am not a hardware expert. But I never hear of
anyone whose website is on the i getting their site hacked. There is a guy
in Minnesota that has allot of good tools to use in web development. Brad
or Bradley Stone I believe.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 9:58 PM Armand Borick <armand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi Everyone!

I am the inheritor of a 9406-525 that we would like to use as a backup to
our production 9406-810.

I have the system set up and running, but the disk drives keep throwing
parity errors.

The new system has about 3TB of disk in the main LPAR, so I have been just
pulling the bad drives out of the
array without replacing them.

My question is: Is there a way to display the error statistics for the
drives in the array, so I can identify upcoming failures?

I ran the Surface Analysis about 2 weeks ago and it reported as OK.
This morning another unit reported a parity error.
That is the 4th to go bad since I brought up the system about 2 months ago.
(the array started out with 75 disks)

The system is just waiting right now, while I finish off some other
projects.
The plan is to clone the applications and data, and use Journaling and
remote data queues to
keep the data files up to date.

I am not inclined to load up all the files just to have the system start
dropping drives.
I would like to identify the worst of the remaining drives, and remove
them.
My production box only has 180GB on it, so there is plenty of room.

I am trying to pitch the i as a good platform for high availabliity, but
its a tough sell with drives dropping dead left and right.

I have a bunch of Milleneals in management here who think Windows servers
are the best thing, and IBM i is "legacy".

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Armand Borick
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