I have no idea about MD3262, but I do not think it is good to create so big volumes. I am using 64GB volumes on FILE storage pools for many years and everything is working fine. I am afraid you will have problems with reclamation of so big volumes.
Grigori G. Solonovitch Senior Technical Architect Ahli United Bank Kuwait www.ahliunited.com.kw Please consider the environment before printing this E-mail -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dury, John C. Sent: 04 03 2013 5:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] suggestions on setting up a Dell MD3260 as primary storage pool We are changing our backup system and plan on using a Dell MD3260 as a primary disk storage device. It will house all backups from the local site as well as replicated data from the remote site. It will function as a primary stgpool only. The tape library that is also attached will eventually be phased out. My question is, what recommendations does anyone have on setting up this device. I was thinking of creating several 2T virtual disks and then presenting them to the linux TSM server but I am not sure whether I want to put them all in a volume group or not since all of the striping is done on the back end of the device as all of the hard drives are in one giant dynamic disk pool. In each 2T disk, I was going to create 4 500G disk storage volumes. Or maybe 2 1T disk storage volumes. Because the disk storage volumes will be permanent and not eventually offloaded to tape, I want to make sure I set this up correctly. Any suggestions for best performance? Ext3? Ext2? Thanks. Please consider the environment before printing this Email. CONFIDENTIALITY AND WAIVER: The information contained in this electronic mail message and any attachments hereto may be legally privileged and confidential. The information is intended only for the recipient(s) named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that any use, disclosure, copying or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this in error please contact the sender and delete this message and any attachments from your computer system. We do not guarantee that this message or any attachment to it is secure or free from errors, computer viruses or other conditions that may damage or interfere with data, hardware or software.
