Manage 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.

• Backup and recovery of independent disk pools
  Be sure to consider a save strategy for your independent disk pools.
• Make a disk pool available
  To access the disk units in an independent disk pool, you must make the disk pool available (vary it on).
• Make a disk pool unavailable
  You can select an independent disk pool to make it unavailable (vary it off).
• Release job reservations on an independent disk pool
  
• Make your hardware switchable
  In a multisystem environment, you must make an external expansion unit switchable.
• Switch access to backup server
  Perform a cluster switchover when you want a backup server to access the switchable device containing an independent disk pool.
• Synchronize user profile name, UID, and GID
  Synchronize user profiles across your cluster to reduce the amount of processing required when you make a disk pool available.
• Change the server takeover IP address
  Change the IP address for a server associated with a relational database in a clustered, switchable environment.
• Manage independent disk pools with geographic mirroring
  Find instructions to suspend and resume geographic mirror, detach and reattach the mirror copy, and delete the geographic mirroring configuration entirely.