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  • 1.  Largest LUN size for AIX 5.3

    Posted Tue November 04, 2008 08:08 AM

    Originally posted by: Jas32


    What is the largest LUN size that AIX 5.3 can handle? We are looking at setting up 10Tbs for a back up scenario. We would like to use 1Tb LUNS, possible 2 5Tb LUNS from an EMC Sym. for this. I can't find anything that gives me a definite answer.

    Thanks!


  • 2.  Re: Largest LUN size for AIX 5.3

    Posted Tue November 04, 2008 08:56 AM

    Originally posted by: j.gann


    interesting.

    There is some IBM info about AIX volume sizes in an SVC environment:
    http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/svcic/v3r1m0/topic/com.ibm.storage.svc.console.doc/svc_aixprob_1dcv18.html
    might be applicable to non-SVC environments as well.

    J.Gann


  • 3.  Re: Largest LUN size for AIX 5.3

    Posted Tue November 04, 2008 09:15 AM

    Originally posted by: cd3lgado


    Hi

    Why use such big LUN sizes ? Depending on you how your backups will be taken you might end up wasting space when backing up small files.

    I would use LUN sizes of up to 128GB.

    Hope this helps