Re: HyperPAV and LVM striping

2012-10-11 Thread Theodore Rodriguez-Bell
.  Thank you for your cooperation. -Original Message- From: Duerbusch, Tom [mailto:duerbus...@stlouis-mo.gov] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:37 AM Subject: Re: HyperPAV and LVM striping So that might have been my problem (but not necessarily limited to that one). I was on Suse 10

Re: HyperPAV and LVM striping

2012-10-10 Thread Duerbusch, Tom
application. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Brad Hinson bhin...@redhat.com wrote: Hi folks, What are the best practices for HyperPAV and LVM striping? I assumed that if you have HyperPAV enabled, you don't need to stripe the data. Is this true, or if not, what

Re: HyperPAV and LVM striping

2012-10-10 Thread Mark Post
On 10/10/2012 at 11:35 AM, Duerbusch, Tom duerbus...@stlouis-mo.gov wrote: Just speaking to LVM... Striping the data across multiple volumes (which in modern dasd is already stripped in the Raid array), would give you the best performance. Especially if you can strip across multiple

Re: HyperPAV and LVM striping

2012-10-10 Thread Fernando Gieseler
PM, Brad Hinson bhin...@redhat.com wrote: Hi folks, What are the best practices for HyperPAV and LVM striping? I assumed that if you have HyperPAV enabled, you don't need to stripe the data. Is this true, or if not, what is the best practice for optimum performance? I have lots

Re: HyperPAV and LVM striping

2012-10-10 Thread Leland Lucius
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Mark Post mp...@suse.com wrote: On 10/10/2012 at 11:35 AM, Duerbusch, Tom duerbus...@stlouis-mo.gov wrote: Just speaking to LVM... Striping the data across multiple volumes (which in modern dasd is already stripped in the Raid array), would give you

Re: HyperPAV and LVM striping

2012-10-10 Thread Leland Lucius
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Mark Post mp...@suse.com wrote: On 10/10/2012 at 11:35 AM, Duerbusch, Tom duerbus...@stlouis-mo.gov wrote: Just speaking to LVM... Striping the data across multiple volumes (which in modern dasd is already stripped in the Raid array), would give you

Re: HyperPAV and LVM striping

2012-10-10 Thread Duerbusch, Tom
So that might have been my problem (but not necessarily limited to that one). I was on Suse 10 system. I initially stripped the LVM. When it got nearly full, I tried to add a pack. Couldn't do it. So I went back and recreated the LVM without striping and I could add a pack. I want to say

HyperPAV and LVM striping

2012-10-09 Thread Brad Hinson
Hi folks, What are the best practices for HyperPAV and LVM striping? I assumed that if you have HyperPAV enabled, you don't need to stripe the data. Is this true, or if not, what is the best practice for optimum performance? I have lots of mod-9 ECKD with HyperPAV enabled, so I want to use

Re: HyperPAV and LVM striping

2012-10-09 Thread Scott Rohling
practices for HyperPAV and LVM striping? I assumed that if you have HyperPAV enabled, you don't need to stripe the data. Is this true, or if not, what is the best practice for optimum performance? I have lots of mod-9 ECKD with HyperPAV enabled, so I want to use LVM. So my two choices

Re: HyperPAV and LVM striping

2012-10-09 Thread Mark Post
will spread the I/O to both PVs, and HyperPAV will assign 2 aliases to each PV since I'm banging on them both. - #2, for the case without LVM striping, HyperPAV will assign 4 aliases to the first PV since that's the only one in use. In either case, it seems I'm using all 4 aliases, so seems like I

Re: HyperPAV and LVM striping

2012-10-09 Thread Rob van der Heij
, for the case with LVM striping enabled, LVM will spread the I/O to both PVs, and HyperPAV will assign 2 aliases to each PV since I'm banging on them both. - #2, for the case without LVM striping, HyperPAV will assign 4 aliases to the first PV since that's the only one in use. In either case