VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2002)

Glossary 315
disk media record
A configuration record that identifies a particular disk, by disk ID, and gives that disk a
logical (or administrative) name.
disk name
A logical oradministrative name chosenfor a diskthat is underthe control of VxVM,such
as disk03. The term disk media name is also used to refer to a disk name.
dissociate
The process by which any link that exists between two VxVM objects is removed. For
example, dissociating a subdisk from a plex removes the subdisk from the plex and adds
the subdisk to the free space pool.
dissociated plex
A plex dissociated from a volume.
dissociated subdisk
A subdisk dissociated from a plex.
distributed lock manager
A lock manager that runs on different systems in a cluster, and ensures consistent access
to distributed resources.
enabled path
A path to a disk that is available for I/O.
encapsulation
A process that converts existing partitions on a specified disk to volumes. Encapsulation
does not apply to HP-UX.
enclosure
See disk enclosure.
enclosure-based naming
See device name.
fabric mode disk
A disk device that is accessible on a Storage Area Network (SAN) via a Fibre Channel
switch.