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Operating Systems AIX New IBM Power8 (S822) and StorWiz V3700 SAN, best practices for production setup/config? Post 302932956 by c3rb3rus on Monday 26th of January 2015 05:04:42 PM
Old 01-26-2015
Thanks this helps Smilie I will make sure the microcode/firmware is up to the latest available before I move this into production.

This is a standalone box, so no LPM.

---------- Post updated at 02:04 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:36 PM ----------

Hey bakunin,

Here is a question for you on pv/vg in regards to my new system setup...

I have carved a 350GB LUN from my StorWize SAN and presented it to the Power8 box via FC.

The pv hdisk2 has the following attributes (the hdisk2 is the LUN I carved and presented)..

Code:
# lspv hdisk2
PHYSICAL VOLUME:    hdisk2                   VOLUME GROUP:     vg_usr2
PV IDENTIFIER:      00f9af9427d70816 VG IDENTIFIER     00f9af9400004c000000014b28233d7d
PV STATE:           active
STALE PARTITIONS:   0                        ALLOCATABLE:      yes
PP SIZE:            512 megabyte(s)          LOGICAL VOLUMES:  1
TOTAL PPs:          699 (357888 megabytes)   VG DESCRIPTORS:   2
FREE PPs:           0 (0 megabytes)          HOT SPARE:        no
USED PPs:           699 (357888 megabytes)   MAX REQUEST:      256 kilobytes
FREE DISTRIBUTION:  00..00..00..00..00
USED DISTRIBUTION:  140..140..139..140..140
MIRROR POOL:        None

After some googling I understand that a normal VG is limited to 32512 physical partitions (32 physical volumes each with 1016 partitions) and 256 logical volumes.

Now I am already confused, hope you can demystify some stuff..

My "hdisk2" has 699 total physical partitions (Total PPs?) based on PP Size being 512mb chunks. So this is 699 out of 32,512 or 1016?

If I changed the hdisk2 to have a PP Size of 256mb chunks, the Total PPs would be 1398 correct? Is there any performance benefits of making the PP Size smaller vs. larger? I am trying to decide what I want my PP Size to be for the PVs.

In the end I will have 4 enhanced JFS2 FS each allocated 350GB, 1TB, 1T, and 2.45TB.

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment edit by bakunin: changed the QUOTE- to CODE-tags, the output is easier to read that way.

Last edited by bakunin; 01-26-2015 at 06:14 PM..
 

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TR(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						     TR(4)

NAME
tr -- TROPIC based shared memory Token-Ring cards device driver SYNOPSIS
tr0 at isa? port 0xa20 iomem 0xd800 irq ? tr* at isa? port ? irq ? tr* at isapnp? tr* at mca? slot ? tr* at pcmcia? function ? DESCRIPTION
The tr device driver supports TROPIC I based shared-memory Token-Ring cards. HARDWARE
Supported cards include the following IBM and 3Com models: IBM Token-Ring Network PC Adapter IBM Token-Ring Network PC Adapter II IBM Token-Ring Network Adapter/A IBM Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter IBM Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter/A IBM Token-Ring 16/4 Credit Card Adapter IBM Token Ring Auto 16/4 Credit Card Adapter IBM Turbo 16/4 Token Ring PC Card IBM 16/4 ISA Adapter IBM Auto 16/4 Token-Ring ISA Adapter IBM Token Ring 16/4 Credit Card Adapter IBM Token Ring Auto 16/4 Credit Card Adapter IBM Turbo 16/4 Token Ring PC Card 3Com 3C619 TokenLink 3Com 3C319 TokenLink Velocity 3Com 3C389 TokenLink Velocity PC Card SOURCE ROUTING
Setting IFF_LINK0 enables Token-Ring source routing. Setting IFF_LINK1 uses all-routes broadcasts otherwise single-route broadcasts are used. NOTES
The MCA attachment has been only tested on IBM Token Ring 16/4 Adapter/A so far. It doesn't support ifmedia(4) yet, too. SEE ALSO
ifmedia(4), intro(4), isa(4), isapnp(4), mca(4), pcmcia(4), ifconfig(8) HISTORY
The tr driver appeared in NetBSD 1.4. BUGS
The PCMCIA attachment does not work with the cbb(4) CardBus driver. BSD
April 14, 1999 BSD
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