GRS ring vs star mode

2005-11-04 Thread R.S.
I created sandbox sysplex within one CPC (shared CPs for both MVS and CF LPARs, IC channels). I observed significant performance improvement when changed GRS from ring to star mode. I didn't notice such improvement, when changed XCF transport from CTC (ESCON) to CF structures. From the other han

Re: GRS ring vs star mode

2005-11-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Is the difference because of star mode advantage or just I have something something to tune when using ring mode ? ... Ring is affected by the number of systems, since the token has to be passed along to all systems. Tuning: reduce the number of systems in the SYSPLEX. Or, go to STAR. -teD In

Re: GRS ring vs star mode

2005-11-04 Thread R.S.
Ted MacNEIL wrote: Is the difference because of star mode advantage or just I have something something to tune when using ring mode ? ... Ring is affected by the number of systems, since the token has to be passed along to all systems. Tuning: reduce the number of systems in the SYSPLEX. Or,

Re: GRS ring vs star mode

2005-11-04 Thread Skip Robinson
My story is improbable but true. We have four full function parallel sysplexes in our enterprise. Of these four, three were converted to star mode some time ago. The fourth had at most two members, one of which was very lightly used. So lightly used, in fact, that we stopped running it altogether;

Re: GRS ring vs star mode

2005-11-04 Thread ibm-main
How about some-one going the otherway - more improbable ???. Multi-site STAR about to be broken down to a (single-CEC) ring of monoplexes. True ... I did some numbers on the environment - CATALOG is a *BIG* contributor to GRS traffic. Historically, this customer has some catalogs on "mixed" volum

Re: GRS ring vs star mode

2005-11-06 Thread Gil Peleg
Radoslaw, For small XCF signalling message sizes, CTC will give performance very close and sometimes even better than a CF structure. This behavior is sort of documented in a WSC Flash. Gil. On 11/4/05, R.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I created sandbox sysplex within one CPC (shared CPs for

Re: GRS ring vs star mode

2005-11-06 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Gil Peleg wrote: Radoslaw, For small XCF signalling message sizes, CTC will give performance very close and sometimes even better than a CF structure. This behavior is sort of documented in a WSC Flash. Gil. For XCF signaling, CTCs can provide better performance because, unlike a signaling

Re: GRS ring vs star mode

2005-11-07 Thread Jon Brock
Heh. Read this as ". . . the change to ring mode *installs* dread." Thought I had been present at the birth of a new catchphrase. Jon Things can be done in preparation, but the change to ring mode instills dread. -- For I