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Subject: Re: Disks are getting hammered ?SMPO0001?
From: Holger Scherer <hs@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 14:55:13 +0200
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So you have up to 12GB read cache on the controller (maybe for writing) + RAM on the host.

But when your guest LPAR(s) going to do heavy write, your poor 5 disk set is going to die...
-h

Am 20.07.2020 um 14:51 schrieb Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>:

Host has two ASP. Main and asp 2.

The only disk in the system unit is used by VIOS and is not part of this picture.
I have two 57CE's. Assigned to the hosting lpar of IBM i. Each connects to a 5887. One 5887 has 22 19B1 disks. The other has five 59DD disks

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