Preliminary Information for Reserving and Releasing Disks

• In a diskset configuration, with a SPARCstorage Array connected to more than one host, it might be necessary for a single host to reserve individual drives, or all the drives in the array. When the issuing host reserves a drive or drives, no other host can use those drives until the issuing host releases them.

• If DiskSuite Tool is run on a host other than the host issuing the reserve command, a status of "Reserved" is shown for those disks in the Information window, and a "lock" icon appears under the disks in the Disk View canvas. However, the host issuing the reservation will not see a lock icon.

This functionality is currently available only for SPARC systems using SPARCstorage Array disks.