June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
10h 33m
English
In this section, we use quota as any way of constraining the use of disk storage by operating system images, applications, or users. Constraints can be applied for the available disk capacity at different levels: the machine level, the z/VM level, or within a Linux image.
Potentially, there is a large number of individual devices attached to a mainframe machine. The hardware definitions limit what is available to each LPAR, for example, an LPAR with a z/VM.
z/VM can allocate logical portions of its available storage to individual guests. In z/VM, such logical portions of storage are referred to as z/VM minidisks. Access to a minidisk can be restricted to a single image, or the minidisk can be shared by multiple images. Usually only ...