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Physical storage

Learn more about physical storage, logical volumes, and the devices and configurations that are supported by the Virtual I/O Server.

Physical volumes
Physical volumes can be exported to client partitions as virtual Small Computer Serial Interface (SCSI) disks. The Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) is capable of taking a pool of heterogeneous physical disk storage attached to its back end and exporting this as homogeneous storage in the form of SCSI disk LUNs.
Logical volumes
Understand how logical volumes can be exported to client partitions as virtual Small Computer Serial Interface (SCSI) disks. A logical volume is a portion of a physical volume.
Virtual media repository
The virtual media repository provides a single container to store and manage file-backed virtual optical media files. Media stored in the repository can be loaded into file-backed virtual optical devices for exporting to client partitions.
Clusters
Learn about using the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) and creating a clustering configuration.
Storage pools
Learn about logical volume storage pools and file storage pools.
Optical devices
Optical devices can be exported by the Virtual I/O Server. This topic gives information about what types of optical devices are supported.
Tape
Tape devices can be exported by the Virtual I/O Server. This topic gives information about what types of tape devices are supported.

Parent topic: Virtual SCSI

Last updated: Thu, April 05, 2018