The storage management software can be used in real-time mode. When you are
connected to storage devices over your network, you can use the Real-time
Manager to manage your hardware or configure your storage.
I/O Priority Manager
The performance group attribute associates the logical volume with a performance
group object. Each performance group has an associated performance policy which
determines how the I/O Priority Manager processes I/O operations for the logical
volume.
Disk
Array Site
Array
Rank
Extents
= CKD Mod1 Extent in IBM
System z environments
= FB 1GB in an Open
systems Host
Virtualization
Extent Pool
Extents
Logical Volume
Volume Group
Volume Groups
Map Hosts to
Volumes
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Figure 16. Logical configuration sequence
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