Display disk configuration

Information about displaying the disk units that are attached to the auxiliary storage pool (ASP). The topic also describes the status and capacity of the system auxiliary storage pool.

You can select the Display disk configuration option from the main service tools display or the Work with disk configuration display according to the paging environment. From this option, you can display the disk units that are attached to the ASP and the status and capacity of the system auxiliary storage pool.
Display disk configuration status
Display the status of all ASPs and the disk units that are configured on the system.
Display disk configuration capacity
Display the following for each ASP and the assigned disk units within each ASP:
  • Threshold values
  • Overflow values
  • Protected storage values
  • Unprotected storage values
Display disk configuration protection
Display the type of protection for each ASP and the assigned disk units within each ASP.
Display non-configured units
Display the status of all the disk units that are not configured.
Display device parity status
Display the status of the disk unit subsystems that have device parity protection on the system. For more information on device parity, see Work with device parity protection.
Display disk compression status
Display the compression status of compressed disk units.
Display disk hardware status
Display the hardware status of the disk units. Some of the disk status are operational, not operational, read-write protected, RAID/active, RAID/failed, and RAID/rebuilding.
Display hot spare disk unit status
Display the hot-spare disk units, showing the IOA that each of the hot-spare disk units is under, along with the capacity of the hot-spare disk units.
Display encryption status
Display each ASP and the encryption status of the ASP.
Display protection for multiple connection disk units
Display the level of protection that exists for each disk unit with multiple connections.
Display status of remove operation
Display which disk units are being removed from the configuration.