migrate from ssa to san

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1. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

Faster way: SAN hd to SAN hd copying

hi! i got a rhel 6.3 host that already have an xfs filesystem mounted from a SAN (let's call it SAN-1) whose size is 9TB. i will be receiving another SAN (let's call it SAN-2) storage of 15TB size. this new addition is physically on another SAN storage. SAN-1 is on a Pillar storage while the new...

2. AIX

Removing Faulty Disk SSA

Hi Experts, I have configured A D40 Array. There is an faulty disk which is not part of an raid volume but shows fault in the diagnostics. pdisk15 U0.1-P1-I1/Q1-W40AA83CC2400D SSA160 Physical Disk Drive ( MB) Is there a way to stop this...

3. AIX

Procedure for removing SSA array

Hi All, What's the proper procedure for removing SSA arrays? Is the procedure like these? - rmdev ssa disk - physical turn off the ssa - cfgmgr There's no more filesystem or logical volume on it. It's just pdisk and hdisk. Thanks in advance, itik

4. AIX

mirroring ssa to san

Hi guys, I'd like to share my migration/mirroring of ssa to san. No downtime for users, probably I/O performance. here's the step: 1 After the lun had been carved on the SAN and the connections had been done on AIX fiber card 2 “lspv” and look for the new SAN hdisk? on the bottom, say...

5. Linux

Howto clone/migrate a volume in the SAN

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6. Solaris

Thoughts/experiences of SAN attaching V880 to EMC SAN

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7. AIX

Problem with a SSA drive

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8. AIX

updating ssa

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9. AIX

ssa performances

Helo: We updated form AIX 4.3.3 to AIX 5.1-7 and after this we spent more than double time in read from external disks. Aparently the ssa cards microcode is at last level and all the ptf and apars are instaled. Out backups expent more than double time, but curiously in read only, if we write in...

10. AIX

RS6000 SSA Raid question

Hi Can I add disks on the fly to extend the capacity of an existing RAID 5 volume? It's created on a 4P Advanced SSA Raid Adapter. I need to extend a volume group, so I figured it would be easiest to extend the "physical disk" which is a RAID5 volume. Thanks.

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