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06-29-2005 07:21 PM
06-29-2005 07:21 PM
Partitioning disk drives on a SMARTArray 5300A
I have a KZPDC-BE, 2 channel RAID SMART array controller running in an ALphaServer DS10. At console mode I can go into the the controller bios and create logical drives. These logical drive consist of a number of physical drives, e.g. 5 72.8GB disk drives can be combined into a logical RAID 5 RAIDset.
Is it possible to then partition this drive into a number a separate partitions/LUNS that will be visible to OpenVMS as separate disks ?
Thanks
Andrew
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06-29-2005 07:38 PM
06-29-2005 07:38 PM
Re: Partitioning disk drives on a SMARTArray 5300A
You bind several physical disk drives together to form a disk array. Then you create one or more logical disks inside the array. These will appear as separate devices on OpenVMS.
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06-29-2005 08:30 PM
06-29-2005 08:30 PM
Re: Partitioning disk drives on a SMARTArray 5300A
First one you know already, i.e. from SRM console using so called ORCA.
>>> run bios pya0
With this method you can only create some storagesets and then assign a lun to the whole set. No partitioning possible!
Another method is to install VMS, TCPIP, Motif first. Configure everything, then install WBEM aka Insight Manager agents.
Suppose you have either VMS V7.3-1 or VMS V7.3-2. then you would use WBEM V3.0-36 kit.
And last but not least you will need ACUXE addon which will then allow access to SmartArray 5300A via web browser thrhough ACUXE / WBEM.
And now you can configure the array any way you wish.
So, I would install VMS etc on to a "pure scsi disk" (i.e. onto one attached to ordinary scsi adapter) and then configure the KZPDC and then move finally stuff from the scsi disk to the logical disk behind KZPDC
I would however leave somekind bootable env on a scsi disk since there would no nice way to manage KZPDC now using SRM console/ORCA
Of course one could have two full disks dedicated to VMS op sys as RAID 1 and just partition the data disks...
Btw, I did this for one of my customer so this is just not theory but actually true and tried.
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06-29-2005 09:04 PM
06-29-2005 09:04 PM
Re: Partitioning disk drives on a SMARTArray 5300A
I didn't see the configuration process as a question, but like your additional info.
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06-30-2005 03:21 PM
06-30-2005 03:21 PM
Re: Partitioning disk drives on a SMARTArray 5300A
RAID5 was a moderately good idea when disks were small and expensive. Now that they're large and cheap, it's a very bad value proposition. Reduced overall performance for moderate improvement in resiliancy, extremely poor performance while recovering.
Partitioning is for operating systems that can't handle large volumes. Again, poor performance (head contention between volumes gives you worst case seek times) and a DECREASE in resiliancy - lose one volume, lose them all.
Combine the two and you have the absolute WORST of all worlds. Performance isn't anywhere near potential for the hardware and there are too many cross dependencies.
Add one extra drive and form three RAID 1 sets (or even better use host based shadowing across two controllers). Performance is good as there is no contention across logical volumes, data resiliancy is MUCH better and does not suffer too much in recovery.
Please take a VERY careful look at your options and objectives before considering RAID 5.
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06-30-2005 04:16 PM
06-30-2005 04:16 PM
Re: Partitioning disk drives on a SMARTArray 5300A
Cusomers can save disk bays which sometimes can decide for one or more disk drive enclosure and on some arrays there is additional cost per raw capacity. One disk more or less can decide on another license jump.
I know that one should not try to squeeze down to the last disk, but that's the way it works in many environments.
> Partitioning is for operating systems that can't handle large volumes.
Right, like operating systems that can't deal with volumes > 1 TeraBytes ;-)
It surely is impressive to talk about performance, but most systems don't require that extreme values anyway.