Physical storage
Learn more about physical storage, logical volumes, and the devices and configurations that are supported by the Virtual I/O Server.
- Physical volumes
Physical volumes can be exported to client partitions as virtual Small Computer Serial Interface (SCSI) disks. The Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) is capable of taking a pool of heterogeneous physical disk storage attached to its back end and exporting this as homogeneous storage in the form of SCSI disk LUNs. - Logical volumes
Understand how logical volumes can be exported to client partitions as virtual Small Computer Serial Interface (SCSI) disks. A logical volume is a portion of a physical volume. - Virtual media repository
The virtual media repository provides a single container to store and manage file-backed virtual optical media files. Media stored in the repository can be loaded into file-backed virtual optical devices for exporting to client partitions. - Clusters
Learn about using the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) and creating a clustering configuration. - Storage pools
Learn about logical volume storage pools and file storage pools. - Optical devices
Optical devices can be exported by the Virtual I/O Server. This topic gives information about what types of optical devices are supported. - Tape
Tape devices can be exported by the Virtual I/O Server. This topic gives information about what types of tape devices are supported.
Parent topic: Virtual SCSI
Last updated: Thu, October 15, 2020