New install

On a 270 with only 14 drives, we’ve setup systems to migrate entirely to flexvols, including vol0. Maximizes effective disk usage and can resize vol0 as needed. Most vol0’s are 25G or less and use a tenth of that. Quite a sacrifice of 2 disks IMO.

Mike

Mike Wargel
Senior Systems Engineer
Custom Storage, Inc
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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Callaway, Michael
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:14 AM
To: Tim Longo; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: New install

We left vol0 as it was, but it's a very small vol, 2 discs if I remember correctly. We just have it there for the system files.

Everything else is flex vols in aggr.

Thanks,
Michael Callaway
Systems Support Technician
North Texas Tollway Authority/IT Department
http://www.ntta.org
214.461.2033 office
214.325.5523 mobile
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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of Tim Longo
Sent: Tue 1/10/2006 9:28 AM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: New install

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.