Setting up your disks

 

Evaluate and perform initial set up for your disks.

• Configuring disks on a new system
  This checklist shows the sequence of tasks that you use to configure disks on a new system. Whether you need to perform all the tasks depends on the disk protection that you want on your system.

• Replacing a disk unit
  If you need to replace a failed disk unit or exchange a disk unit to prevent failure, the Replace Disk Unit wizard makes the process a simple task.

• Renaming a disk unit
  iSeries™ Navigator gives you the option of changing the default disk unit name to something more meaningful to you.

• Formatting a disk unit
  You can select to clear all data from a non-configured disk unit and write the sectors, which prepares the disk unit for use in the system.

• Scanning a disk unit
  You can select to scan a disk unit to check the surface of the disk units and correct any sectors with errors.

• Starting disk compression
  Compression increases the apparent capacity of disk units by encoding the data to take up less physical storage space. Compression does affect performance because of the overhead required to compress and decompress the data.

• Retrieving disk unit logs
  You can use iSeries Navigator to gather information about a specific disk unit.

 

Parent topic:

Planning for disk management