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HP StorageWorks XP48 Disk Array User Manual

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Table G.1

Provisioning Manager Terms and Corresponding Storage Subsystem Terms

Provisioning Manager

StorageWorks
XP12000/XP10000

StorageWorks
XP1024/XP128

StorageWorks
XP512/XP48

Port controller

CHA

CHA

CHA

Port Port Port Port
Host storage domain

Host group

Host group

Not applicable

Logical unit (LUN)

LUN LUN

LUN

Array group

VDEV (area created by
dividing the parity group
into pieces)

VDEV (area created by
dividing the parity group
into pieces)

Parity group

Logical device (LDEV)

LDEV LDEV

LDEV

Business Copy XP

Business Copy XP

Business Copy XP

Business Copy XP

Continuous Access XP

Continuous Access XP

Continuous Access XP

Continuous Access XP

Snapshot XP

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Continuous Access XP
Journal

#1

Continuous Access XP
Journal

Not applicable

Not applicable

#1: StorageWorks XP10000 does not support Continuous Access XP Journal.

Table G.2 shows the relationship between Provisioning Manager terms and the corresponding OS terms.

Table G.2

Provisioning Manager Terms and the Corresponding OS Terms

Provisioning Manager
(Display in GUI)

HP-UX Windows

®

Solaris™ AIX

®

Linux

Raw device
(RawDevice)

Block device or
character device

Device

Block device or
character device

Block device or
character device

Block device or
raw device

Raw device
(RawDevice(Partitione
d))

Partition Partition Slice

Not

applicable

Partition

Volume group
(VolumeGroup)

Volume group

Disk group

#1

Disk

group

#2

Volume group

Volume group

Logical volume
(LogicalVolume)

Logical volume

Basic disk
partition or
dynamic disk
volume

Logical volume

Logical volume

Logical volume

Device file

Device file

Device

Device file

Device special file Device file

#1: When Logical Disk Manager is used, Provisioning Manager virtually creates a volume group that has the
same name as the logical volume. The corresponding volume group does not exist on the host.

#2: When SDS/SVM is used, Provisioning Manager virtually creates a volume group that has the same name
as the logical volume. The corresponding volume group does not exist on the host.

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