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 mwargel@customstorage.com O: 480 941-4026, x101 C: 602 690-4788

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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 http://www.ntta.org 214.461.2033 office 214.325.5523 mobile 972.930.2633 fax

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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.