Raju,

What about your local IBMer or online via ETR

Scott ford
www.identityforge.com

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On Feb 15, 2013, at 8:48 AM, Raju Reddy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Scott,
> 
> Thanks for that.. I have the Redbook handy and followed the same procedure.
> 
> But there it is mentioned how to use RAID 5 (7+P) combination.
> 
> And also while creating Arrays, I dont see RAID 5 (7+P) but it
> automatically pick ups RAID 5 (6+P+S).
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Raju
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Raju,
>> 
>> http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248085.html?Open
>> 
>> Scott ford
>> www.identityforge.com
>> 
>> Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll
>> understand. - Chinese Proverb
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 15, 2013, at 3:26 AM, Raju Reddy <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear All,
>>> 
>>> We are under the process of migrating to DS8870 from DS8810.
>>> 
>>> While I create new Ranks with Array 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 I used Ranks to pick RAID5 which automatically
>> picked
>>> RAID 5 (6+P+S) and thus causing loss of 750 GB of storage.
>>> 
>>> We need RAID 5 (7+S) for 'Development' LPAR's to increase the usable
>>> storage but DS8000 GUI is not allowing me chose RAID 5 (7+S) combination.
>>> 
>>> Can you please advice how to make Ranks pick RAID 5 (7+S) combination.?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Raju
>>> 
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