Disk management
Use the information in this topic to effectively manage your disk units, disk pools, independent disk pools and find strategies to help you protect the data on your disk units.
A disk pool is also referred to as an Auxiliary Storage Pool or ASP.
- What's new for IBM i 7.1
Read about new or significantly changed information for the Disk Management topic collection. - PDF file for Disk Management
You can view and print a PDF file of this information. - Getting started with disk management
When a new disk unit is attached to the system, the system initially treats it as a non-configured disk. Learn what you can do with your disk units after initial installment. - Disk protection
It is important to protect all the disk units on your system with either device parity protection or mirrored protection. This prevents the loss of information when a disk failure occurs. - Disk pools
A disk pool, also referred to as an auxiliary storage pool (ASP) in the character-based interface, is a software definition of a group of disk units on your system. - Disk encryption
Disk encryption allows you to encrypt data stored in basic disk pools and independent disk pools. - External load source disk unit
The load source disk unit is the disk unit that contains the initial programs and data that are used during an initial program load (IPL) of the system. - Disk management checklist
This topic contains checklists for performing configuration procedures. Use this information to determine which checklist to use for your situation. - Frequently asked questions
Here is a list of independent disk pool questions and answers. If you have a question that is not on this page, please contact us. - Related information for Disk management
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