HP P9000 Provisioning for Mainframe Systems User Guide (AV400-96369, October 2011)

Guidelines
• Although the system disk can be created in an external volume, it is best to make it in an
internal volume.
• Although there can be up to 16 volumes of the system disk made throughout the entire storage
system, best practice is to have only one system disk per storage system.
• If you have more than one system disk on your storage system, and one of them is blocked,
the unblocked system disks may not be usable. In this case, delete the blocked system disk,
and then use the other normal system disks.
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