If the 270 is in fact a clustered 270 (270c), then the 2nd root volume would need at least 2 disks for the 2nd head, but would still do all aggrs and flex vols, at least for the first/primary head and leave one spare for the shelf.
Mike Wargel Senior Systems Engineer Custom Storage, Inc mwargel@customstorage.com O: 480 941-4026, x101 C: 602 690-4788 -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Skottie Miller Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:58 AM To: Tim Longo Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: New install
re-zero the disks and create an aggregate. then, the root vol, vol0 can be any size you want within that aggregate, and you can then create/remove/resize other volumes for your production data.
we create a small (20G) vol0 as root in the root aggregate on every filer, and use the rest of the space for one or more FlexVols or FlexCache vols within the other aggregates.
-skottie
Tim Longo wrote:
I'm in the process of setting up a new FAS270. The first thing I did
was
upgrade firmware/nd Ontap to version 7. After doing some reading, I think I will plan to implement FlexVols in the remaining free space.
The
root Vol0 seems to be bigger than I would have made it, and it seems
it
needs to be a traditional Vol that I cannot resize. I'd be interested
to
know what other people are doing here... are you leaving Vol0 as a traditional volume and adding other flex vols? What about resizing the root volume?
Thanks.