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<h1 class="topictitle1">Hardware requirements</h1>
<div><p>Depending on how you plan to use independent disk pools, you must have
the following hardware and operating system releases.</p>
<div class="tablenoborder"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" frame="border" border="1" rules="all"><thead align="left"><tr class="tablemainheaderbar"><th class="oddrowblue" colspan="3" valign="top" id="d0e22">Environments</th>
<th class="oddrowblue" valign="top" width="19.04930512525449%" id="d0e24">independent
disk pool use</th>
<th class="oddrowblue" colspan="2" valign="top" id="d0e26">Requirements</th>
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<tbody><tr><td colspan="3" valign="top" headers="d0e22 ">Single system </td>
<td valign="top" width="19.04930512525449%" headers="d0e24 ">Stand-alone independent disk pool</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" headers="d0e26 ">One iSeries™ server running OS/400<sup>®</sup> V5R1M0<sup>1</sup> or
later.</td>
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<tr><td colspan="3" valign="top" headers="d0e22 ">Multiple systems</td>
<td valign="top" width="19.04930512525449%" headers="d0e24 ">&nbsp;</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" headers="d0e26 "><p>Use either
multiple servers or multiple partitions, by doing one of the following:</p>
<ul><li>Two or more iSeries servers.</li>
<li>One iSeries server
running with logical partitions.</li>
</ul>
<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> The version of i5/OS™ or OS/400 must be compatible.</div>
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<tr><td colspan="3" valign="top" headers="d0e22 ">&nbsp;</td>
<td valign="top" width="19.04930512525449%" headers="d0e24 ">Switchable independent disk pools</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" headers="d0e26 ">One or more switchable device, do one
of the following:<ul><li>One or more expansion units (frame/units) residing on a high-speed link
(HSL) loop.</li>
<li>One or more input/output processors (IOP) on a shared bus
or an IOP that is assigned to an I/O pool<sup>2</sup>.</li>
</ul>
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<tr><td colspan="3" valign="top" headers="d0e22 ">&nbsp;</td>
<td valign="top" width="19.04930512525449%" headers="d0e24 ">Geographic mirroring<sup>3</sup></td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" headers="d0e26 ">Two or more servers each with sufficient
disk space to create the independent disk pools of similar, but not necessarily
matching, capability. <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> Consider including hardware for the IP connections.
See <a href="rzalycommunications.htm">Communications requirements </a>for
more details. </div>
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<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> <ol><li>OS/400 V5R1M0
provides only independent disk pools containing user-defined file system (UDFS)
only. OS/400 V5R2M0
or later support library-based objects. </li>
<li>In an LPAR environment, you can switch the input/output
processor (IOP) that contains the independent disk pools between system
partitions without having an expansion unit. The IOP must be on the bus shared
by multiple partitions or assigned to an I/O pool. All input/output adapters
(IOAs) on the IOP will be switched. </li>
<li>OS/400 V5R3M0
provides support for geographic mirroring. </li>
</ol>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzalyplan.htm">Plan for independent disk pools</a></div>
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