HP Storage Hardware Providers VDS/VSS Installation Guide (5697-1131, August 2011)
Table Of Contents
- HP Storage Hardware Providers VDS/VSS Installation Guide
- Contents
- 1 Overview of HP Storage hardware providers
- 2 Installing HP hardware providers for HP P6000 disk arrays
- Preparing to install HP P6000 hardware providers
- Installing hardware providers for HP P6000 disk arrays
- 3 Installing HP hardware providers for HP P9000 disk arrays
- Preparing to install HP P9000 hardware providers
- Installing hardware providers for HP P9000 disk arrays
- 4 Troubleshooting the HP hardware providers
- 5 Support and other resources
- Glossary
- Index
Glossary
This glossary defines acronyms and terms used in this guide or related to this product and is not a
comprehensive glossary of computer terms.
API Application Programming Interface, an interface that allows a software application
to connect to and work with another software application.
clone A full copy of a volume, usable by an application.
P6000 Command
View
HP Storage Command View, a browser-based interface that allows management
of an HP disk array.
differential copy A copy of a database consisting only of the differences in the database since
the last full copy.
disk array A RAID. A collection of disk drives within a cabinet or multiple cabinets and
including a controller and software allowing drives to be ganged together in
various configurations to create virtual drives (LUNs).
P6000 HP Storage Enterprise Virtual Array.
FC Fibre Channel, a fiber optic interconnection standard commonly used for storage
area networks.
GUI Graphical user interface.
HBA Host bus adapter. The FC interface card that installs in a host to connect the host
to a fabric SAN.
HWP Hardware provider. Software that executes on the host, a bus adapter, and the
disk array to enable managing of array LUNs and ports through the Windows
operating system and applications.
LAN Local area network.
LUN Logical unit number. A physically addressable storage unit as surfaced by a
hardware RAID subsystem. A virtual disk, consisting of multiple portions of
physical disks addressed as a single unit.
mirror See also clone.
plex A Microsoft term denoting a full copy of data that has been split off from the
original and is no longer being updated. See also split mirror.
PVOL Primary volume. Typically the volume where application data is stored.
RAID Redundant array of independent disks.
SAN fabric The Fibre Channel hardware and cabling that connects servers to storage devices
in a storage area network (SAN) is referred to as a “fabric.” A fabric switch
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