Managing independent disk pools

 

After you configure an independent disk pool, you can perform management tasks using iSeries™ Navigator.

Make sure you can Access disk management functions.

• Making a disk pool available
  To access the disk units in an independent disk pool, make the disk pool available (vary it on).

• Making a disk pool unavailable
  You can select an independent disk pool to make it unavailable (vary it off). You cannot access any of the disk units or objects in the independent disk pool or its corresponding database until it is made available (varied on) again. The pool can be made available again on the same system or another system in the recovery domain of the cluster resource group.

• Backing up and recovering independent disk pools
  Be sure to consider a save strategy for your independent disk pools.

• Releasing job reservations on an independent disk pool
  If jobs are currently using an independent disk pool, you cannot make the disk pool unavailable (vary off). In order to make the independent disk pool unavailable, all the jobs using the disk pool need to release their reservation on the disk pool. To determine how to handle this situation, first view the jobs.

• Switching independent disk pool between different releases
  There are restrictions to consider when switching independent disk pools between releases.

 

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Managing disk pools

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iSeries Navigator requirements for disk management Independent disk pool examples