Our site had 3,000 mostly M9s totaling 30 TB. 4 Ess f20 consolidated to two Ess 800 then 1 EMC Max when I retired.
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 10:46 Grant Taylor < 0000023065957af1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On 7/31/23 6:37 AM, Jay Maynard wrote: > > It's not just CPU power or number of cores, but the ability to connect > > thousands of volumes of data and access them simultaneously, and move > > that data from point A to point B efficiently. > > Please elaborate, are those volumes separate DASD devices or are they > possibly some logical component thereon? > > I also wonder how common it is to have four digits of volumes (physical > or logical) varied on at the same time. > > I wonder this about both mainframes and some of the largest Open Systems > that I've been exposed to. > > Hundreds absolutely happens. I don't know about a thousand or more. > > Also, what constitutes a volume? How different are FCP and FC LUNs? > How different are they when the same back end storage system is > exporting LUNs to both mainframe and Open Systems, with the primary > difference being FCP vs traditional FC? > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
