Hi All,

We are under the process of migrating to DS8870 from DS8100.
>From DS8870 box, while I create new Arrays with Arraysite capacity of
2400GB(8*300GB), I get around 1652GB of usable storage while rest will go
for Parity and Spare.

We use SSD disks and when I create Arrays is picks RAID5 which
automatically picked RAID 5 (6+P+S) and thus causing loss of 750 GB of
storage.

We need RAID 5 (7+P) for 'Development' LPAR's to increase the usable
storage but DS8000 GUI is not allowing me chose RAID 5 (7+P) combination.

Can you please advice how to make Arrays pick RAID 5 (7+P) combination.?

Regards


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Ronald Hawkins
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Don,
>
> I suggest that you look into your vendor's implementation of encryption of
> data
> at rest.
>
> If you have HDS then all RAID schemes and disk types are supported (HDD,
> SSD and
> SATA) and there is no performance impact. I believe EMC and IBM also
> support
> Encryption of data at rest.
>
> With encryption of data at rest there is no exposure as you describe, and
> there';s no need to scrub/erase/degauss/destroy your disk drives when you
> replace them.
>
> Ron
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Grinsell, Don" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Fri, June 8, 2012 2:16:13 PM
> Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Failed Disk Data Exposure
>
> Here's a Friday topic:  With modern disk arrays, e.g. DS8000, what is the
> real
> exposure of meaningful residual data being recovered from a single drive
> out of
> the array.  I can't seem to find anything definitive other than a lot of
> "data
> may be recoverable" statements from vendors selling secure erase services.
>  Just
> curious if anybody has any hard data to demonstrate an exposure or not.
>
> ________________________________
> Donald Grinsell
> State of Montana
> 406-444-2983
> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers
> write
> code that humans can understand." ~ Martin Fowler
>
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