Raju, That almost sounds like microcode doing that ....a setting
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 9:01 AM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
