Hi Stefan,
not very technical reason, V5030 was already available because an Oracle
RAC is just migrated to Flashsystem 900, so we reused it for this new
spectrum protect, instead buy a lower spec storage.
Also performance will better for sure on SAS drives versus NL-SAS.

JR

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Stefan Folkerts <stefan.folkerts AT gmail DOT 
com
> wrote:

> No knowledge about that type of Linux cluster.
> Could you explain why you picked the V5030 over the V5020 and why you are
> going for 15K drives in a system that will use the containerpool?
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 9:48 AM, adsm consulting <adsmcons AT gmail DOT com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > We are planning to implement spectrum protect 8.1 in RHEL cluster with 2
> > nodes for HA reason.
> > The shared SAN storage will be a storwize V5030, with disks for database
> on
> > SSD and SAS15Krpm for directory container storage pools.
> > Also we will have in near feature a TS3310 for copy container for in site
> > protection.
> >
> >
> > In the knowledge center there is no configuration examples abount Redhat
> > Enterprise linux clustering (pacemaker).
> > So I am asking if anybody has made this kind of configuration before me.
> >
> > Blueprint linux 3.1 can give some indication only for standard no
> clustered
> > configuration.
> > Infact for example no LVM configuration is made.
> > One of my question is for example about Database disks:
> > On the storage i will made 4 VDISK (LUN), i shuld put them in unique VG
> and
> > split after in 4 LV? Or si prefferred to made 4 VG with 1 LV each?
> >
> > Thank you if somebody will share his experience.
> >
> > Greetings.
> >
> > James R.
> >
>