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August 18th, 2011 11:00

To pool or not to pool

I have a new PS6000 to eventually replace my old PS300E(still under warranty). I was thinking that I was going to add it to the exiting pool and take advantage of the distribution load features of the latest 5.1 firmware.
I am now thinking that I should just create a new pool and transfer the data to the new SAN. My thought was that I am not really going to benefit from the distribution features because they are the same type of drives and RAID type. The downside will be the downtime during transfer. I can later add the old san back and use it for static data and testing.
Is there any benefit with having the older san the first in the pool?

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September 6th, 2011 12:00

New pool...what they neglect to tell you is that you should have 3 arrays and 1 being RAID 10 for the distributed load feature to work.
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