D910 to IBM i

The D910 device type is an enabler for IBM i to be able to use thin devices (and FAST). Priot to thin, a device was limited from a storage performance perspective by the physical spindle count related to the RAID type used. A small number of disks effectively. Now with thin, the device has access to all of the disk resources in the pool, so really the back-end limitation has gone away. One of the benefits of thin is the ability to use larger devices without the risk or running out of array back-end resources.

Thanks for the information Jason. So when selecting LUN sizes it doesn't really matter what LUN size you give to IBM i ?

It matters in a couple of ways. In theory a D910 could be 2TB, but the maximum devices size on VMAX-2 is around 240GB, so the maximum size is the EMC size. The other consideration is with synchronous SRDF. Will these be SRDF/S devices?

There is a limit on the number of concurrent in-flight writes to an SRDF/S device and in some circumstances a larger number of devices is better. There can be up to one outstanding write per device per FA slice with SRDF/S. 

We're doing Timefinder/Clone and I know I need to match the devices between the Source and Target system. Thanks again for the tip.