Parallel Access Volumes (PAV)



	Performance papers

To avoid disk I/O bottlenecks IBM has been using a technology called "Parallel Access Volumes (PAV)". PAV is also available for Linux on System z guests under z/VM.

For a description of the necessary steps to use PAV

for Linux kernel 2.6, see How to Improve Performance with PAV - SC33-8292-01 using EVMS
for Linux kernel 2.4, see How to Improve Performance with PAV - SC33-8293-00 using LVM1

Team

Please address any comments to the performance team: linux390@de.ibm.com