Additional Considerations: iSeries Virtual Disks

When planning a new installation, the flexibility of virtual disks enable strategies not commonplace in today's world of large physical disks. If you plan on using virtual disks, having one large enough to hold the Red Hat Linux distribution and another holding applications and application data is one strategy worth considering. Another strategy might be a single partition on a virtual disk holding a particular application.

Since virtual disks are not bound by physical boundaries, they can be sized in any manner that is useful and culled out during a Red Hat Linux re-installation to preserve them over the installation.