Use this tab to view the properties of the virtual disks on your managed system and to perform virtual disk maintenance tasks.
A virtual disk is a division of a storage pool that can be assigned to a logical partition as if it were a whole physical disk. Virtual disks use space from and are stored on storage pools, which are made up of one or more of the physical volumes assigned to a VIOS logical partition or space reserved from another storage pool. A storage pool can span multiple physical disks and provide storage space for multiple virtual disks which can be assigned to multiple logical partitions.
The toolbar at the top of the Virtual Disks details table contains tasks that you can perform. To perform most tasks, you must select one or more virtual disks in the table before you select the task that you want to perform. You can select a virtual disk by clicking the Select option beside the appropriate entry in the table.
The table includes the following information about each virtual disk:
You can sort this table by any of these categories by clicking the appropriate column heading.
Note: If a volume group is defined as a paging space storage pool as part of a shared memory pool configuration for the managed system, it is dedicated to providing this function and is no longer available for any other purpose. Consequently, such a volume group is not listed here.
The following tasks are available from the toolbar at the top of the Virtual Disks table. To perform most tasks, you must select one or more virtual disks in the table before you select the task that you want to perform. Some tasks allow you to perform actions on multiple virtual disks while other tasks allow you to perform an action on a single virtual disk only. You can select a virtual disk by clicking the Select option beside the appropriate entry in the table.