Managing device parity protection

 

Refer to this topic to see the tasks that you can perform to manage your disk protection activities.

• Stopping device parity protection
  You can select to stop device parity protection on the displayed disk units.

• Including disk units in a parity set
  When you attach a new disk unit to an existing IOA that has device parity protection, you can include the disk unit in a parity set with other disk units.

• Excluding disk units from a parity set
  You can select which disk units you want to exclude from the parity set as long as they do not contain parity data.

• Changing parity set optimization for RAID 5 protection
  If you use an V5R2 IOA and OS/400^® V5R2 or later, you can choose how you want your parity sets to be optimized.

• Determining what disks are in a parity set using the DST menu
  Follow these steps to find the disk units in a parity set using the DST menu.

• Determining what disks are in a parity set using the SST menu
  Follow these steps to determine what disks are in a parity set using the SST menu.

• Determining what disks are in a parity set using iSeries Navigator
  Follow these steps to determine what disks are in a parity set using iSeries™ Navigator.

 

Parent topic:

Device parity protection