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ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 3 - IBM Redbooks

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8.9 ESS disks<br />

Eight-packs<br />

Set <strong>of</strong> 8 similar capacity/rpm disk drives packed<br />

together<br />

Installed in the ESS cages<br />

Initial minimum configuration is 4 eight-packs<br />

Upgrades are available increments <strong>of</strong> 2 eight-packs<br />

Maximum <strong>of</strong> 48 eight-packs per ESS with expansion<br />

Disk drives<br />

18.2 GB 15,000 rpm or 10,000 rpm<br />

36.4 GB 15,000 rpm or 10,000 rpm<br />

72.8 GB 10,000 rpm<br />

145.6 GB 10,000 rpm<br />

Eight-pack conversions<br />

Capacity and/or RPMs<br />

Figure 8-9 ESS disks<br />

ESS disks<br />

With a number <strong>of</strong> disk drive sizes and speeds available, including intermix support, the ESS<br />

provides a great number <strong>of</strong> capacity configuration options.<br />

The maximum number <strong>of</strong> disk drives supported within the <strong>IBM</strong> TotalStorage Enterprise<br />

Storage Server Model 800 is 384, with 128 disk drives in the base enclosure and 256 disk<br />

drives in the expansion rack. When configured with 145.6 GB disk drives, this gives a total<br />

physical disk capacity <strong>of</strong> approximately 55.9 TB (see Table 8-1 on page 461 for more details).<br />

Disk drives<br />

The minimum available configuration <strong>of</strong> the ESS Model 800 is 582 GB. This capacity can be<br />

configured with 32 disk drives <strong>of</strong> 18.2 GB contained in four eight-packs, using one ESS cage.<br />

All incremental upgrades are ordered and installed in pairs <strong>of</strong> eight-packs; thus the minimum<br />

capacity increment is a pair <strong>of</strong> similar eight-packs <strong>of</strong> either 18.2 GB, 36.4 GB, 72.8 GB, or<br />

145.6 GB capacity.<br />

The ESS is designed to deliver substantial protection against data corruption, not just relying<br />

on the RAID implementation alone. The disk drives installed in the ESS are the latest<br />

state-<strong>of</strong>-the-art magneto resistive head technology disk drives that support advanced disk<br />

functions such as disk error correction codes (ECC), Metadata checks, disk scrubbing, and<br />

predictive failure analysis.<br />

460 <strong>ABCs</strong> <strong>of</strong> z/<strong>OS</strong> <strong>System</strong> <strong>Programming</strong> <strong>Volume</strong> 3

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