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Operating Systems AIX AIX - Fibre Adapter and IBM Storage Post 302967277 by rbatte1 on Monday 22nd of February 2016 06:46:51 AM
Old 02-22-2016
I don't see why it would not work, however you are then limiting yourself for future growth. If you p-Series has two fibre cards and you have two free HBA on the SAN then you should just be able to cable them, but if you want to add another server, you have to make a choice:-
  • Plug in direct to another two free HBA if you have them
  • Insert switches into your existing paths, which may require downtime
What is your likely future growth? If you are sure there is no growth then go ahead, but if you think you might replace your server at some point and might like to migrate the LUNs across, then you either have to have enough spare HBAs or invest in switches early is my recommendation.


Thinking about IO speed, it seems to be the write requests that work better. With local disk (not including hardware raid) the OS is directly responsible for ensuring that the write has been committed to the brown-spinning-stuff and must wait to get it done. With hardware RAID and SAN disk, you normally get a big chunk of cache. The OS writes to this cache and gets an acknowledgement that the write is complete. The server can then carry on and the disk array then completes the true write to the brown-spinning-stuff in it's own time to best economy based on physical head positions and rotation position of the disks.


I hope that this helps,
Robin
 

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{ package Point; use Moose; use MooseX::Storage; with Storage( traits => [qw|OnlyWhenBuilt|] ); has 'x' => (is => 'rw', lazy_build => 1 ); has 'y' => (is => 'rw', lazy_build => 1 ); has 'z' => (is => 'rw', builder => '_build_z' ); sub _build_x { 3 } sub _build_y { expensive_computation() } sub _build_z { 3 } } my $p = Point->new( 'x' => 4 ); # the result of ->pack will contain: # { x => 4, z => 3 } $p->pack; DESCRIPTION
Sometimes you don't want a particular attribute to be part of the serialization if it has not been built yet. If you invoke "Storage()" as outlined in the "Synopsis", only attributes that have been built (ie, where the predicate returns 'true') will be serialized. This avoids any potentially expensive computations. This trait is applied to an instance of MooseX::Storage::Engine, for the user-visible version shown in the SYNOPSIS, see MooseX::Storage::Traits::OnlyWhenBuilt METHODS
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