with SAPLF1, where SAPFL1 is used to provide full pack minidisk allocations for 

the dynamic provisioned servers. Example 24 shows our configuration.

Example 24   Extent Control file entries

:REGIONS.

  *RegionId  VolSer    RegStart      RegEnd  Dev Type  Comments

515RES    515RES           001        3338 3390 03     3390 1

515W01    515W01           001        3338 3390 03     3390 1

515W02    515W02           001        3338 3390 03     3390 1

515U1R    515U1R           001        3338 3390 03     3390 1

DK8024    DK8024           001        3338 3390 03     3390 1

DK8025    DK8025           001        3338 3390 03     3390 1

DK8026    DK8026           001        3338 3390 03     3390 1

DK8027    DK8027           001        3338 3390 03     3390 1

:END.

:GROUPS.

  *GroupName RegionList

ANY    515U1R

SAPLF1 (ALLOCATE ROTATING)

SAPLF1 DK8024 DK8025 DK8026 DK8027 DK8020 DK8021 DK8022 DK8023

:END.

:EXCLUDE.

  * UserId Address

MAINT 012*

SYSDUMP1 012*

:END.

:AUTOBLOCK.

  * IBM supplied defaults are contained in the AUTOBLK DATADVH file.

  * The following are customer overrides and supplements.

  *

  *DASDType BlockSize Blocks/Unit Alloc_Unit Architecture

:END.

:DEFAULTS.

  * IBM supplied defaults are contained in the DEFAULTS DATADVH file.

  * The following are customer overrides and supplements.

  *

  *DASDType Max Size

3390                 3339

3390 01              1113

3390 02              2226

3390 03              3339

3390 09             10017

:END.

It is important that you 

turn off

 all MINIDISK caching for the DASD of all 

dynamically provisioned servers. If you do not, the chances of cloning failures 

and possible file system corruptions is much higher. 

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Dynamic Provisioning of SAP Environments using IBM DI for mySAP and Tivoli Provisioning