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Revised:  June 28, 2005.



Revised:  August 30, 2005.


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Physical capacity for the DS8000 series is purchased via disk drive
sets. A disk drive set contains 16 identical disk drives (same capacity
and rpm). Disk drive sets are available in 73 GB (15,000 rpm), 146 GB
(10,000 rpm), and 300 GB (10,000 rpm). For additional flexibility,
feature conversions are available to exchange existing disk drive sets
when purchasing new disk drive sets with higher capacity. Price,
performance, and capacity flexibility to help meet specific application
and business requirements is provided through support for the intermix of
73 GB, 146 GB, or 300 GB drives.

Physical capacity for the DS8000 series is purchased via disk
drive sets. A disk drive set contains 16 identical disk drives
(same capacity and rpm). Disk drive sets are available in 73 GB
(15,000 rpm), 146 GB (10,000 rpm and 15,000 rpm), and 300 GB
(10,000 rpm). For additional flexibility, feature conversions
are available to exchange existing disk drive sets when
purchasing new disk drive sets with higher capacity. Price,
performance, and capacity flexibility to help meet specific
application and business requirements is provided through
support for the intermix of 73 GB, 146 GB, or 300 GB drives.

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offline configuration tool is installed on a customer server and can be
used for the configuration of a DS8000 series system at initial
installation or for reconfiguration activities.
offline configuration tool is installed on a customer server and can
be used for the configuration of a DS8000 series system at initial
installation.
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  • Disk Drives: The disk drives provide storage capacity for the
    DS8000. Disk drives are installed in disk enclosure pairs, in a disk
    install group of 16 identical drives of the same type (capacity and rpm).
    Drive sets are available with 73 GB (15K rpm), 145 GB (10K rpm), and 300
    GB (10K rpm) drives. In a DS8300 Model 9A2, each of the two Storage
    System LPARs has access to a maximum of 50 percent of the installed disk
    drives.

  • Disk Drives: The disk drives provide storage capacity for
    the DS8000. Disk drives are installed in disk enclosure pairs,
    in a disk install group of 16 identical drives of the same type
    (capacity and rpm). Drive sets are available with 73 GB
    (15K rpm), 146 GB (10K rpm and 15K), and 300 GB (10K rpm)
    drives. In a DS8300 Model 9A2, each of the two Storage System
    LPARs has access to a maximum of 50 percent of the installed disk drives.
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  • The 65,520 cylinder 3390 volume is not supported with z/OS Global
    Mirror and z/OS Metro/Global Mirror.
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  • Reconfiguration activity with the offline configuration tool is
    not supported.
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    - 146 GB 15K Drive Set A 2226
    - 146 GB 15K Drive Set B 2236
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    - 146 GB 15K CoD Drive Set A 2227
    - 146 GB 15K CoD Drive Set B 2237
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    2226 146 GB 15,000 rpm disk drive set - physical location A
    2236 146 GB 15,000 rpm disk drive set - physical location B
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    2027 73 GB 15,000 rpm 15K CoD disk drive set - physical location A
    2037 73 GB 15,000 rpm 15K CoD disk drive set - physical location B
    2127 146 GB 10,000 rpm10K CoD disk drive set - physical location A
    2137 146 GB 10,000 rpm10K CoD disk drive set - physical location B
    2327 300 GB 10,000 rpm10K CoD disk drive set - physical location A
    2337 300 GB 10,000 rpm10K CoD disk drive set - physical location B
    2027 73 GB 15,000 rpm CoD disk drive set - physical location A
    2037 73 GB 15,000 rpm CoD disk drive set - physical location B
    2127 146 GB 10,000 rpm CoD disk drive set - physical location A
    2137 146 GB 10,000 rpm CoD disk drive set - physical location B
    2227 146 GB 15,000 rpm CoD disk drive set - physical location A
    2237 146 GB 15,000 rpm CoD disk drive set - physical location B
    2327 300 GB 10,000 rpm CoD disk drive set - physical location A
    2337 300 GB 10,000 rpm CoD disk drive set - physical location B