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<h3 id="rzahqperfstoragespacebalancing">Storage space balancing</h3>
<p>When a storage space is created, the data is spread across the disks in
a user specified Auxiliary Storage Pool (ASP), or Independent Auxiliary Storage
Pool (IASP). The disks in the pool may be configured to be unprotected, parity
protected (RAID-5), or with mirrored protection. Unprotected disks provide
no protection against disk failures. Parity protected disks maintain parity
sets which allow the recovery if a disk fails in a parity set (but at a performance
cost). Mirroring provides protection against disk failures, but with much
better performance than parity. The integrated server gains the benefits of
the efficient iSeries&trade; storage architecture, regardless of how an ASP
or IASP is configured.</p>
<p>The iSeries sever has functions to help maintain the efficient spread of
data across the disks. One example is the Start Disk Reorganization (STRDSKRGZ)
operation, which balances disk storage utilization. Another is the &quot;Add
units to ASPs and balance data&quot; available when hard disk resources are
assigned to an ASP. On integrated servers, a storage space will only be moved
or rebalanced across disks while the linked server is varied off.</p>
<p>The location of the data associated with a storage space is usually automatically
managed by the iSeries. There is no need to configure striped volumes
or software RAID of the disks within the Windows operating system. Configuring
these features in the Windows operating system may actually slow the effective
disk operations. Even though the storage is spread across the iSeries disks in
small extents, continue to defragment the associated disk on Windows to maintain
efficient file-system data structures.</p>
<p>You can monitor how well the iSeries is fulfilling the integrated server's
disk requirements by using the Work with Disk Status (WRKDSKSTS), Work with
Network Server Storage Spaces (WRKNWSSTG), and Work with Network Server Status
(WRKNWSSTS) commands. For other performance considerations, realize that integrated
servers are Microsoft&reg; Windows servers. You can use Microsoft's
Windows Performance Monitor as you would on any other server. See your Microsoft Windows documentation for information about using the Performance
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