
Chapter 7. Open systems servers - UNIX 233
7.8 Volume groups, logical volumes and file systems
Logical disks created on the DS6000 and presented to host systems are often referred to as
logical volumes. Unfortunately, this can cause confusion when we move over to the UNIX
operating system because here, too, we create logical volumes. The DS6000 logical volume
and the UNIX operating system logical volume are two separate things. So, in this section, we
will refer to the logical volumes created on the DS6000 as LUNs. And we will use operating
system LVM commands to create logical volumes using the available DS6000 LUNs.
In the following sections, ...