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Physical storage elements, Storage process management example

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Physical Disks Storage Elements RAID Arrays Logical Drives Selective Storage Presentaion Visible Disks Single Server Logical Storage Elements Partitioning File System Elements Shadow Copy Elements NTFS Volumes File Folders Shadow Copies (Snapshots) Cluster Physical Disk Resources Q: \Engineering \Marketing \Users \Sales Q: from 02/10/03 09:30 \snapshot.0 Q: from 02/10/03 11:30 \snapshot.1 Cluster Elements Cluster Virtual Server Groups (Network Name) (IP Address) (Cluster Admin) Fault-tolerant CIFS/SMB and NFS File Shares \Users \Sales \Marketing \Engineering \Snapshot.0 \Snapshot.1 CIFS and NFS File Shares File Sharing Elements 15752 Figure 12 Storage process management example Physical storage elements The lowest level of storage management occurs at the physical drive level. Minimally, choosing the best disk carving strategy includes the following policies: • Analyze current corporate and departmental structure. • Analyze the current file server structure and environment. • Plan properly to ensure the best configuration and use of storage. • Determine the desired priority of fault tolerance, performance, and storage capacity. • Use the determined priority of system characteristics to determine the optimal striping policy and RAID level. 50 Storage management overview

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Single Server
Physical Disks
Logical Drives
RAID Arrays
Selective Storage
Presentaion
Visible Disks
Partitioning
NTFS Volumes
Shadow Copies
(Snapshots)
Cluster Physical
Disk Resources
Fault-tolerant
CIFS/SMB and
NFS File Shares
Cluster Virtual
Server Groups
(Network Name)
(IP Address)
File Folders
Storage
Elements
Logical
Storage
Elements
File
System
Elements
Shadow Copy
Elements
Cluster
Elements
File
Sharing
Elements
CIFS and NFS
File Shares
\Engineering
\Marketing
\Users
\Sales
from 02/10/03 09:30 \snapshot.0
from 02/10/03 11:30 \snapshot.1
Q:
Q:
Q:
\Users
\Sales
\Marketing
\Engineering
\Snapshot.0
\Snapshot.1
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Figure 12 Storage process management example
Physical storage elements
The lowest level of storage management occurs at the physical drive level. Minimally, choosing the
best disk carving strategy includes the following policies:
Analyze current corporate and departmental structure.
Analyze the current file server structure and environment.
Plan properly to ensure the best configuration and use of storage.
Determine the desired priority of fault tolerance, performance, and storage capacity.
Use the determined priority of system characteristics to determine the optimal striping policy
and RAID level.
Storage management overview
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