We have a different situation from you Martha in that we can't add more
central storage. Our current experience is that with a heavily
over-committed lpar large amounts of expanded storage allows for reasonab
le
performance with high paging rates.
I include output from the vir2real exec to see the config we are running,
this is dev/test NOT PROD, and we are increasing xstore to 32Gb this week
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Storage information for VM system VLB2
Any userid using NSSes "CMS GCS" are considered CMS users.
Total Virtual storage (only ids not running CMS): 732340 MB ( 715.2 GB)
Total Virtual storage (only ids running CMS): 1200 MB ( 1.2 GB)
Total Virtual storage (all logged on userids): 733540 MB ( 716.3 GB)
Usable real storage (pageable) for this system: 259884 MB ( 253.8 GB)
Total LPAR Real storage: 262144 MB ( 256.0 GB)
Expanded storage usable for paging: 24544 MB ( 24.0 GB)
Total Virtual disk (VDISK) space defined: 17285 MB ( 16.9 GB)
Average Virtual disk size: 98 MB
Virtual to (usable) Real storage ratio: 2.8 : 1
Virtual + VDISK to Real storage ratio: 2.9 : 1
Virtual to Real ratio (non CMS work only): 2.8 : 1
Paging: 18 volumes defined, total space is: 413696 MB ( 404.0 GB)
Total Paging space in use (60% utilization): 248864 MB ( 243.0 GB)
Ready;
