Virtual log devices

A virtual log device is a virtual target device on the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS), attached to a virtual Small Computer Serial Interface (SCSI) host adapter and backed by a virtual log.

By creating virtual log devices, virtual logs are made available to client logical partitions. The following sections describe the use of the local virtual log repositories.

See Virtual log devices with shared storage pools topic for the commands that can also be used to work with virtual logs within a shared storage pool.