Predefined disk drives for integrated Windows servers

The IBM® iSeries™ Integrated Server Support installation process creates two disk drives (network server storage spaces) for installing and running integrated servers. See Disk drives for integrated Windows servers. By default, i5/OS™ creates these disk drives in the system disk pool (ASP), but you can choose a different location during the installation. i5/OS also uses these disk drives to load and start the integrated server.

Servers have these predefined disk drives:

Boot and system drive (C)

This drive serves as the system drive. i5/OS names this drive server1, where server is the name of the network server description (NWSD). This disk drive resides in the integrated file system and is automatically linked as the first drive.

The C drive ranges from 1,024 to 1,024,000 MB. You can choose to leave the drive as FAT. The C drive is automatically converted to NTFS, if required by the size of the storage space.

If you plan to create NWSD configuration files, be aware that support for these files exists only for disk drives that are formatted as FAT or FAT32. See Network server description configuration files. A system drive that has been converted to NTFS is not accessible for NWSD configuration files. For more information about the different file systems, see Comparison of FAT, FAT32, and NTFS file systems .

Installation source drive (D)

The D drive can be 200 - 2,047 MB and holds a copy of the Windows server installation code and the IBM iSeries Integrated Server Support code. i5/OS names this drive server2, where server is the name of the NWSD. This disk drive resides in the integrated file system and is automatically linked as the second drive. i5/OS formats the D drive as a file allocation table (FAT) disk.

Attention: This drive must remain as a FAT drive. Do not make any changes to this drive. i5/OS uses this drive to perform code updates, and changing the drive can make performing updates impossible.