We have our disks in 180GB volumes. Our TSM volumes are 50GB and 30GB. This allows use to spread the load of the stg pools across the disks as we see fit. This also allows a reasonable amount of control on the size of the pools so if a pool needs to be a little bigger or smaller it is just a matter of adding or removing a volume.
AIX and about 3TB of storage pool volumes. Andy Huebner -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:25 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Server stgpool volumes and GPT I saw the reply to my message (via the web interface to ADSM.ORG) from Howard Coles. Still not coming through via email. >> Actually, you may get better performance out of Windows if you leave off >> the GPT. You don't want really large storage pool volumes anyway, so >> partitioning it out with 2 TB File systems, would be a good idea. That >> would remove another level of complexity, and overhead on the server >> itself. The fewer things you have between the App (TSM) and the >> hardware the better. >> Or, better yet, use Linux and you'll get more out of your hardware. >> See Ya' >> Howard I guess I should have stated the intended platform. I would NEVER use Windoze. This will be a RedHat Linux server. Probably EL/ES 5. I have see discussions of using the XFS filesystem vs. EXT2. Any thoughts on this? To add to this discussion, any guidelines on the storagepool volume sizes? Since it will be RAID-5 at the hardware level, does it still make sense to chop it up in chunks or should I just make a few 1TB volumes, based on what the TSM size limit is for disk volumes. This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.
