118 IBM PowerVM Best Practices
the partition profile. It requires 1 bit extra for every 16-byte page it allocates. For
instance, a partition with 10 Gb of memory needs a paging device with a
minimum size of 10.08 Gb defined in the partition profile.
Remember, some storage vendors do not support dynamically increasing the
size of a logical unit number (LUN). If this case, the paging device needs to be
removed and re-created. The following list outlines best practices to consider
when you configure paging devices:
Use physical volumes, where possible, over logical volumes.
If you use logical volumes, use a small stripe size.
Use thin provisioned LUNs.
Spread the I/O load across as much of the disk subsystem as possible.
Use a write cache, ...