hedijaiet wrote:
so the 8 first disks on 3 par is used for the system internal data and i cannot use them as volume on my hosts ?
Not true. System space, spare space will be distributed across all the disks installed on the system , whatever space is left over will be usable for host volumes.
What does "showpd -space" tell you? Here is an example of what a 16 drive system looks like:
Code:
ESFWSS7200-1 cli% showpd -space
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Id CagePos Type -State- Size Volume Spare Free Unavail Failed
0 1:0:0 NL normal 2772992 1219584 347136 1206272 0 0
1 1:1:0 NL normal 2772992 1221632 347136 1204224 0 0
2 1:2:0 NL normal 2772992 1221632 347136 1204224 0 0
3 1:4:0 NL normal 2772992 1221632 347136 1204224 0 0
4 1:5:0 NL normal 2772992 1221632 347136 1204224 0 0
5 1:6:0 NL normal 2772992 1221632 347136 1204224 0 0
6 1:8:0 NL normal 2772992 1219584 347136 1206272 0 0
7 1:9:0 NL normal 2772992 1221632 347136 1204224 0 0
8 1:10:0 NL normal 2772992 1221632 346112 1205248 0 0
9 1:12:0 NL normal 2772992 1219584 346112 1207296 0 0
10 1:13:0 NL normal 2772992 1220608 346112 1206272 0 0
11 1:14:0 NL normal 2772992 1222656 346112 1204224 0 0
12 1:16:0 NL normal 2772992 1221632 346112 1205248 0 0
13 1:17:0 NL normal 2772992 1221632 346112 1205248 0 0
14 1:20:0 NL normal 2772992 1219584 346112 1207296 0 0
15 1:21:0 NL normal 2772992 1220608 346112 1206272 0 0
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16 total 44367872 19536896 5545984 19284992 0 0