DB2 overall disk layout example

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Refer to this example when you are configuring the disk layout for a DB2® environment.

The following figure shows file systems that are involved in an example disk layout.
Figure 1. Example overall disk layout for a DB2 environment

This figure shows a sample disk layout.
The respective disk categories contain the following disk types that are used for the various file systems:
  1. Local disks on the production system (p_disk category) for the file systems 
         /db2/D01 
     /db2/D01/db2dump
     /db2/D01/db2event
     /db2/D01/sqllib
     /sapmnt/D01 
     /usr/sap/D01 
     /usr/sap/trans 
     /opt/IBM/db2/V10.5
     /db2/D01/acs (ACS_DIR)
  2. Source volume disks on the production system (db_disk category) for the file systems 
         /db2/D01/sapdata1 
     /db2/D01/sapdata2 
     /db2/D01/sapdata3 
     /db2/D01/sapdata4 
     /db2/D01/sapdata5 
     /db2/D01/sapdata6 
     /db2/D01/sapdatat
     /db2/D01/db2d01
    Source volume disks on the production system (db_log category) for the file system 
         /db2/D01/log_dir
  3. Local disks on the production system (p_db_disk category) for the file systems 
         /db2/D01/log_archive 
     /db2/D01/log_retrieve
  4. Local disks on the backup system (b_disk category) for the file systems 
         /db2/D01 
     /opt/IBM/db2/V9.5
     /db2/D01/acs (ACS_DIR)
  5. Disks for the IBM® Storage Protect server (TSM_disk category) for the file systems 
        /tsmdb