Switching independent disk pool between different releases

 

There are restrictions to consider when switching independent disk pools between releases.

Once an independent disk pool is made available on a system, it cannot be made available to another system that is running on a previous version of OS/400^®. However, it is possible to switch a previous release independent disk pool to a system running the current version of i5/OS^® and make it available. After it is made available on the system running the current version of i5/OS, its internal contents are changed and it cannot be made available to the previous release system again.

If a current release disk pool is switched to a V5R1 release system, its disk units show up as non-configured on the previous release system. If these disk units are added to another disk pool, the independent disk pool is destroyed.

 

Parent topic:

Planning for independent disk pools