Physical Storage Elements - HP StoreEasy 1000 Administrator's Manual

Figure 31 Storage management process example

Physical storage elements

The lowest level of storage management occurs at the physical drive level. Minimally, choosing
the best disk carving strategy includes the following policies:
Analyze current corporate and departmental structure.
Analyze the current file server structure and environment.
Plan properly to ensure the best configuration and use of storage.
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Determine the desired priority of fault tolerance, performance, and storage capacity.
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Use the determined priority of system characteristics to determine the optimal striping
policy and RAID level.
Include the appropriate number of physical drives in the arrays to create logical storage
elements of desired sizes.
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