Create Operating System wizard: Disk Pool page

Use this page to specify the disk pool that is to provide the disks for installing the operating system instance.

Introduction

You take the storage devices for installing your new operating system instance from disk pools that are defined on z/VM. The available disk pools are listed in the Disk Pools field. The information shown on this wizard page refers to the disk pool that is selected in the Disk Pools field.

Fields

Available disk Pools
Select the disk pool you want to use from this list of available disk pools. The information shown on this wizard page refers to the disk pool selected in this list. The default is the default disk pool set in the z/VM Profile.
Name
Name of the selected disk pool. You cannot edit this field.
Max Allocatable Space
Maximum amount of contiguous disk space, in bytes, that you can allocate. Your operating system instance needs to fit into this space. You cannot edit this field. You cannot edit this field.
Remaining Managed Space
Amount of free disk space in the pool in bytes. You cannot edit this field.
Total Managed Space
Total amount of disk space in the pool in bytes. You cannot edit this field.
Default Disk Pool
Indicates if the disk pool is the default disk pool. You cannot edit this field.
Description
Description of the disk pool. This field is empty if no description has been provided for the disk pool. You cannot edit this field.
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