Create a new disk pool group

A disk pool group is made up of a primary disk pool and zero or more secondary disk pools. A practical use of a disk pool group is to isolate journal receivers, which might reside in one or more secondary disk pools, from the objects for which they contain journal entries, which reside in the primary disk pool.

You can create a disk pool group and add disk units to the individual disk pools by using the New Disk Pool wizard. If you have existing UDFS disk pools that you would like to include in a disk pool group, see Convert a UDFS disk pool to primary or Convert a UDFS disk pool to secondary.

Note: If you want to create a switchable independent disk pool (UDFS, primary, or secondary), you must create the cluster first. For more information, see Create a switchable independent disk pool.

To create a new disk pool group, follow these steps:

In iSeries™ Navigator, expand My Connections (or your active environment).
Expand any iSeries server > Configuration and Service > Hardware > Disk Units.
Right-click Disk Pools and select New Disk Pool.
On the resulting New Disk Pool dialog box, select Primary for the Type of Disk Pool field and complete the required information.

Note: If you have already created a primary disk pool with which you want to associate one or more secondary disk pools in a disk pool group, you can skip this step. After you have created the primary disk pool, click New Disk Pool if you want to create a secondary disk pool to associate with the primary disk pool. From the resulting dialog box, select Secondary for the Type of Disk Pool field and complete the required information. Repeat this step for each secondary disk pool you want to create. Follow the wizard's instructions to add disk units to the new disk pools.