Managing independent disk pools

After you configure an independent disk pool, you can perform management tasks.

Make sure you can Access disk management functions.

Making a disk pool available
To access the disk units in an independent disk pool, you must make the disk pool available (vary it on).
Making a disk pool unavailable
You can select an independent disk pool to make it unavailable (vary it off). You cannot access any of the disk units or objects in the independent disk pool or its corresponding database until it is made available (varied on) again. The pool can be made available again on the same system or another system in the recovery domain of the cluster resource group.
Attach Independent Disk pool
An independent disk pool can be moved from one partition and attached to another partition that is in a single-system environment.
Backing up and recovering independent disk pools
Be sure to consider a save strategy for your independent disk pools.
Releasing job reservations on an independent disk pool
If jobs are currently using an independent disk pool, you cannot make the disk pool unavailable (vary off). To make the independent disk pool unavailable, all the jobs using the disk pool must release their reservation on the disk pool. To determine how to handle this situation, you must first view the jobs.

Parent topic: Managing disk pools

Related concepts

Requirements for disk management