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<h1 class="topictitle1">Scenario: Consolidate servers using switchable independent disk pools</h1>
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<div><div class="section" id="scenario__situation"><a name="scenario__situation"><!-- --></a><h4 class="sectionscenariobar">Situation</h4><p>Your
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company's network currently uses 30 small servers distributed within a single
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region, all in the same time zone, using the same language, and running the
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same release of the operating system and programming code. The amount of time
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and effort you spend maintaining the small systems and keeping them at the
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same operating system and application release levels is significant. </p>
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<div class="section" id="scenario__objective"><a name="scenario__objective"><!-- --></a><h4 class="sectionscenariobar">Objectives</h4><p>To
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reduce the resource required to maintain and administer your servers, you
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want to consolidate by reducing the number of servers in your network.</p>
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<div class="p">The
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objectives of this scenario are as follows:<ul><li>To consolidate from 30 small servers to one larger server at a central
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location</li>
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<li>To maintain data independence for each geographic region</li>
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<div class="section" id="scenario__details"><a name="scenario__details"><!-- --></a><h4 class="sectionscenariobar">Details</h4><p>None
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of the 30 small servers in your network require more than four disk units.</p>
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<div class="section" id="scenario__prereq"><a name="scenario__prereq"><!-- --></a><h4 class="sectionscenariobar">Prerequisites
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and assumptions</h4><div class="p">A potential consolidation answer for your network
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is logical partitioning (LPAR). However, in your scenario, consolidating the
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30 locations with logical partitioning is not ideal because:<ul><li>The effort required to manage the partitions is approximately the same
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as managing 30 distributed systems.</li>
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<li>Each partition requires an IOP in order to support a load source for the
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partition. As a result, 30 IOPs are required for the consolidated system.</li>
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<li>Additional expansion units are required to hold the IOPs needed for the
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30 partitions. Since each location uses only a few disk units, the expansion
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units might be nearly empty.</li>
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</ul>
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As a result, the LPAR solution is not justifiable from an economic point
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of view for your scenario.</div>
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<p>A better way to solve your particular scenario
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is to use switchable independent disk pools to provide server consolidation.
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By creating one switchable independent disk pool for each of the 30 branch
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offices, you will be able to reduce the number of IOPs from 30 to 7, while
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requiring just two expansion units. This is an economically attractive alternative.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="section" id="scenario__steps"><a name="scenario__steps"><!-- --></a><h4 class="sectionscenariobar">Design</h4><div class="p">To
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understand how to use switchable independent disk pools, see <a href="rzalycreateswitchableiasp.htm">Create a switchable independent disk pool</a>. In addition to the planning and configuration steps
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for implementing switchable independent disk pools, the following strategies
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can be used to ensure that your users at the respective branch offices can
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seamlessly access data:<ul><li>To ensure that users receive access to the correct set of data, your run-time
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environment can be changed to make sure that users from different branch offices
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connect to their data in the corresponding independent disk pool. This can
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be accomplished through a simple adjustment to user profiles and to the job
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descriptions that are specified by user profiles. <p>All user profiles from
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a particular branch office will use one job description. The job description
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will specify the independent disk pool that contains the user's data, and
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create the library list that each job will use. With these simple changes,
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the task of getting each user to the correct set of data is completed.</p>
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</li>
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<li>Another run-time problem to be pointed out is the resolution of duplicate
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subsystems and job queues. Each branch office uses a cloned subsystem description
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to run batch jobs. Each of the subsystems uses job queues that have the same
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name on each of the branch office subsystems. If a single subsystem and a
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single set of job queues are used in the consolidated environment, jobs submitted
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by users from different branch offices will all be placed on the same set
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of queues and initiated by a single subsystem. This results in work flow that
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is inconsistent with the run-time environment of the distributed systems. <p>To
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resolve this problem, the subsystems will be given unique names. Then, a command
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to start all of the subsystems will be added to the startup program. Finally,
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each of the job queues used by the subsystem will be moved into a library
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that is unique to each of the job descriptions that are used by the branch
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offices. As a result, any application that submits a job will require no changes
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in order to submit batch jobs to its unique queue.</p>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzalyswitchableiasps.htm">Examples: Switchable independent disk pools</a></div>
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