HP AiO400t HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System User Guide (440583-005, F - Page 46
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 10 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. 46 Storage management overview