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Solutions Enabler or Hitachi HiCommand Device Manager. Engenio storage systems
do not require a proxy, as they can be accessed directly.
S
SAN A Storage Area Network (SAN) is a high speed network configuration that is
dedicated to transporting storage data among network devices, such as storage
systems, hosts (servers), switches, and tape libraries to end users. In addition to
connecting local elements to storage arrays, it may also be extended to off site or
remote locations for the purposes of backup, archival or acting as a hot site in the
event of a disaster.
A SAN can communicate via current technologies such as ESCON (mainframe), fibre
channel, or newer technology such as iSCSI. SAN’s can support several configurations
such as disk mirroring, RAID 5, backup/restore, and data migration, as well as being
able to incorporate Network Attached Storage (NAS).
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a TCP/IP protocol used in sending and
receiving e-mail.
soft zone A soft zone is created by assigning a world wide name (WWN) of a device port to a
zone.
Storage Management
Infrastructure
Specification A Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) standard for implementing data
storage management using the Common Information Model (CIM).
storage pool It is a group of volumes. Also known as volume group.
switch port zoning A type of zoning in which the port of the switch is physically in the zone. Any device
attached to the port is automatically in the zone.
V
Virtual Storage Area
Networks (VSAN) See VSAN.
Virtual Application A placeholder you create for an unsupported application. For example, assume your
company has created an internal application, and you want to be able to use the
software to keep track of that application. You can create a virtual application for that
product.
VSAN (Virtual Storage
Area Networks) Virtual Storage Area Networks (VSANs) are logical fabrics formed as subsets of
physical FC (Fibre Channel) switch networks. A VSAN is defined as a set of Fx, E and
TE ports-entry/exit, traditional ISL (Inter-switch Link) ports, and trunked ISL ports. TE
ports are ISLs that may be shared between a named set of VSANs. All ports other than
TE ports must be members of exactly one VSAN. On Cisco switches, there is a default