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Chapter 5. Virtualization concepts 101
Any mix of CKD or FB addresses in 4096 address groups.
Increased logical volume size:
CKD: 55.6 GB (65520 cylinders), architected for 219 TB
FB: 2 TB, architected for 1 PB
Flexible logical volume configuration:
Multiple RAID types (RAID-5, RAID-10)
Storage types (CKD and FB) aggregated into extent pools
Volumes allocated from extents of extent pool
Dynamically add/remove volumes
Virtualization reduces storage management requirements.