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
