Disk management

Use the information in this topic to effectively manage your disk units, disk pools, and independent disk pools. Find strategies to help you protect the data on your disk units.

• What's new for V5R4
  This topic highlights changes to disk management for V5R4.
• Printable PDF
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• Disk management concepts
  Learn about how disk storage works, how you can leverage disk pools in your environment. Protect your data with device parity protection and mirrored protection.
• Plan for disk management
  Depending on how you plan to manage your disks, you must meet certain hardware, software, and communications requirements.
• Configure your disks
  Evaluate and configure your disks.
• Manage your disks
  Locate instructions for managing disk units and disk pools, managing independent disk pools, and keeping track of disk protection.
• Using independent disk pools
  If you are interested solely in independent disk pools, use this information to help you plan, configure, and manage independent disk pools.
• Related information for Disk management
  Listed here are the iSeries™ manuals and IBM^® Redbooks™ (in PDF format), Web sites, and information Center topics that relate to the disk management topic. You can view or print any of the PDFs.