Deployment of VMFS and RDM LUN through ESX VSphere and RSM Server (February 2010)

Glossary

BC Operations Business Copy Operations; local replication like

snapshot, snapclone, mirrorclone.

DC-Management Dynamic Capacity Management enables you to extend

(increase) or shrink (decrease) the size of a host volume

based on storage requirements, without disrupting the

host I/O.

ESX VSphere A software suite designed to centralize and optimize

desktop management and data center resources through

virtualization. Every component of the suite can function

with diverse operating systems, applications, and

hardware devices.

EVA Enterprise Virtual Array is virtualized HP storage array.

LUN Logical Unit Number is a unique ID assigned to virtual

disks in a storage system.

RDM Raw Device Mapping; When a host volume is not

controlled and formatted by a host file system, it is

termed a raw disk or raw storage. Typically, the host’s

I/O with a raw disk is under the direct control of a

database or a similar application. Raw disks are

typically used to improve I/O performance or facilitate

the creation disk-image copies

SAN

Storage Area Network is an architecture used to

virtually connect various systems to a server.

VMFS Virtual Machine File System is used for storing virtual

disk information and snapshots.

WWN World Wide Name is a unique ID used to identify a

particular Fibre Channel target.

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Edition 1, February 2010