Senior Systems Programmer

Matthew Roessner

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We are currently running a Power7 iSeries server connected to a v7000 for our SAN. &nbsp;When we set everything up we had to create 80 GB LUNs on the v7000 as a requirement for the iSeries LPARs. &nbsp;We are now looking to upgrade to a Power 9 server and are shopping around for new SAN storage. <br><br>I was curious if the 80GB LUN requirement was still something that was necessary or if we can configure our new SAN with larger LUN sizes. &nbsp;Obviously having larger volumes would be less to manage...<br><br>Not sure if it is relevant or not, but all of our LPARs are V7R3<br><br>Thanks in advance!
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We are currently running a Power7 iSeries server connected to a v7000 for our SAN.  When we set everything up we had to create 80 GB LUNs on the v7000 as a requirement for the iSeries LPARs.  We are now looking to upgrade to a Power 9 server and are shopping around for new SAN storage.
I was curious if the 80GB LUN requirement was still something that was necessary or if we can configure our new SAN with larger LUN sizes.  Obviously having larger volumes would be less to manage...
Not sure if it is relevant or not, but all of our LPARs are V7R3
Thanks in advance!

Are 80GB LUN sizes still required for IBM i SAN environments

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