still takes over an hour for 60 gig and still pushes 16 to 17 gig a minute
as seen via topas. thanks:

02/19/04   12:01:06  ANR0984I Process 5 for DEFINE VOLUME started in the
                      BACKGROUND at 12:01:06.
02/19/04   13:03:47  ANR2206I Volume /tsmdata9/vol4-60.dsm defined in
storage
                      pool SES.DISK1 (device class DISK).
02/19/04   13:03:47  ANR0986I Process 5 for DEFINE VOLUME running in the
                      BACKGROUND processed 1 items for a total of
                      62,914,560,000 bytes with a completion state of
SUCCESS

Anymore suggestions?. Thanks!.

--Justin Richard Bleistein
Email: justin.bleistein AT sungard DOT com


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Use AIX raw volumes.

Orville L. Lantto
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I would create and format the volumes from within TSM. This will speed
things up!

Regard,

Karel

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Van: Amar Vi [mailto:Vibhute_Bandu AT EMC DOT COM]
Verzonden: donderdag 19 februari 2004 17:25
Aan: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Onderwerp: Dsmfmt on cx600 any thoughts?


Greetings,

We have serious performance issue for dsmfmt command.

We are getting 45MB/sec write speed on AIX4.3.3 box connected to CX600 ATA
RAID5 4+1 disk group.But when we use dsmfmt it gives 9 to 16 MB/sec. Which
is very sluggish to format 16 TB storage for storage pools.

Does anybody have information on how dsmfmt works?

 or how to speed up so that it will give better I/O on SAN storage?

Thank you,

Bandu Vibhute

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