Raju, What about your local IBMer or online via ETR
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 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 >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
