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<h1 class="topictitle1">Storage solutions</h1>
<div><p>As your company produces a greater volume of information, and as
the value of that information grows, the methods you use to protect and preserve
it become vital corporate strategies. Storage has gone from being a feature
of a server to being an entity unto itself.</p>
<p>It performs several valuable functions within your enterprise, including
the following:</p>
<ul><li> <strong>Availability.</strong> Your storage solution must enable you to access
your data when you need it, without exception. In some settings, such as a
hospital, access to data can mean the difference between life and death.</li>
<li> <strong>Integrity.</strong> Your data must be in exactly the same condition when
it returns to you as it was when it was stored. That means it must be safe
from corruption, loss, and outside attack.</li>
<li> <strong>Recoverability.</strong> Your storage solution should ensure that you can
recover your data in the event of a natural disaster, such as a fire, flood,
or tornado.</li>
</ul>
<p>The purpose of this topic is to step you through the world of iSeries™ storage
and help you make choices about which storage technologies are right for your
company now, and which may be useful in the future.</p>
<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Notes:</span> <ul><li>For additional information that is specific to storage for backup and
recovery purposes, see Getting your media ready to save your server.</li>
<li>For detailed information about the storage components described in this
topic, see IBM<sup>®</sup> Total
Storage.</li>
<li>This information includes programming examples. Read the <a href="codedisclaimer.htm#codedisclaimer">Code license and disclaimer information</a> for
important legal information.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzam4new.htm">What's new for V5R4</a></strong><br />
For V5R4, the Tape and Optical storage topics have been expanded to include:</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzam4print.htm">Printable PDF</a></strong><br />
Use this to view and print a PDF of this information.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzam4sls.htm">How the iSeries views storage</a></strong><br />
This topic describes how objects are stored on your iSeries server
and lays the groundwork for the other topics in this section.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzam4disk.htm">Disk</a></strong><br />
This topic describes how disk storage on the iSeries works
and describes how it can be configured and used for different storage purposes.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzam4tape.htm">Tape</a></strong><br />
This topic describes the advantages and limitations of using tape for storage. It makes some recommendations about when tape is a good choice and when you should consider other media. It also provides planning, setup, management, and troubleshooting information for stand-alone tape devices and tape libraries.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzam4optical.htm">Optical storage</a></strong><br />
This topic provides an overview and reference guide for IBM optical support
on the iSeries server
with the i5/OS™ operating
system.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><img src="./delta.gif" alt="Start of change" /><strong><a href="rzam4virtualstorage.htm">Virtual storage</a></strong><img src="./deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /><br />
Virtual storage consists of objects that, when used together, imitate
tape, CD, DVD, and write-once read-many (WORM) media on your disk units. The
imitated media appear to the server to be <em>actual</em> media.</li>
</ul>
<div class="reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br />
<div><a href="../rzaiu/rzaiurzaiu103.htm">Getting your media ready to save your server</a></div>
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<div class="relinfo"><strong>Related information</strong><br />
<div><a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/storage/" target="_blank">IBM Total Storage</a></div>
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