Thanks to Dale & P. Saint Jacques,
 
One other question:
 
For DMS - as we have scope to re-configure the SSA; with Raid 5 is it generally better to have more containers for parallelism with fewer disks per logical drive (3 disks +1 for parity on raid 5) versus fewer containers with more disks per logical drive (5 +1) ?
 
i.e. which is likely to give better performance on 500-700 gb database with 36gb SSA disks raid 5
 
a)    8 containers with 4 disks per container (3+1parity) =  1152 gb  
    or
b)    4 containers with 6 disks per container (5+1parity) = 864 gb
 
 
Please ignore the storage overhead, which would perform better ?   (I prefer a))
 
Thanks
 
Dave Bargeron
LloydsTSB Bank
United Kingdom 
 
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: DB2EUG: UDB Downsize

You can resize the containers to a minimum size you chose for SMS containers.
For DMS containers V7 still limits you the high water mark attained for each container of your current db.
The situation occurs because in the backup image the files that are your tablespace descriptors: SQLSPCS.1 and SQLSPCS.2 contain info on the high water mark of each container.
As you restore, these are brought back with the image and your redirect definitions will be compared to those high water mark values.

So do a LIST TABLESPACE CONRAINERS FOR x SHOW DETAIL where x is the tblsp. id to find the high water marks of each container to redirect.

Apart from that, what you are planning to do should work.

David Bargeron wrote:

Dear List, I need to resize downwards.... We (& the business !) over-estimated the sizing of a database (UDB 7.1 on NT 4.0); instead of being around 1 terabyte it will come to around 500gb, we would like to free up the extra 500gb SSA for other uses. Our plan is to backup the existing database, resize the containers accordingly smaller with fewer disks per array and then do a redirected restore into the new containers. (The largest containers are for LOB data 6 disks per array + 1 for parity.) Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Dave BargeronLloydsTSB BankUnited Kingdom

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