HP XP P9500 Storage - Manual (Page 132)

RAID group A group of disks configured to provide enhanced redundancy, performance, or both. Specifically,
four or eight physical hard disk drives (HDDs) installed in a P9000 or XP disk array and assigned
a common RAID level. In an XP disk array this is also referred to as an array group or parity
group.
RAID level A configuration of disk drives that uses striping, mirroring, and parity to improve performance
and data availability and reliability.
RAID Manager The CLI configuration and replication tool for the P9000 or XP disk array that system administrators
can use to enter RAID Manager commands from open-system hosts to perform Continuous Access,
Business Copy, Database Validator, and Data Retention operations, as well as provisioning
commands on logical devices.
RAID1-level data
storage A RAID that consists of at least two drives that use mirroring (100 percent duplication of the
storage of data). There is no striping. Read performance is improved since either disk can be
read at the same time. Write performance is the same as for single disk storage.
RAID5-level data
storage A RAID that provides data striping at the byte level and also stripe error correction information.
RAID5 configurations can tolerate one drive failure. Even with a failed drive, the data in a RAID5
volume can still be accessed normally.
RAID6-level data
storage A RAID that provides data striping at the byte level and also stripe error correction information.
RAID6 configurations can tolerate two drive failures. Even with two failed drives, the data in a
RAID6 volume can still be accessed normally. RAID6 read performance is similar to RAID5, since
all drives can service read operations, but the write performance is lower than that of RAID5
because the parity data must be updated on multiple drives.
RCU Remote control unit.
Remote Web
Console A browser-based program installed on the SVP that allows you to configure and manage the disk
array.
S-VOL Secondary or remote volume. The copy volume that receives the data from the primary volume.
SSD Solid state disk. A high-performance storage device that contains no moving parts. An SSD
contains DRAM or EEPROM memory boards, a memory bus board, a CPU, and a battery card.
SVP Service processor. A computer built into a disk array. The SVP, used only by an HP service
representative, provides a direct interface to the disk array.
synchronous Describes computing models that perform tasks in chronological order without interruption. In
synchronous replication, the source waits for data to be copied at the destination before
acknowledging that it has been written at the source.
V-VOL Virtual Volume.
VOL, vol Volume.
volume Volume on disk. An accessible storage area on disk, either physical or virtual.
WWN World Wide Name. A unique identifier assigned to a Fibre Channel device.
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