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Storage : NAS Volume Management ................................................................................... 171
Storage : NAS Quota Management ..................................................................................... 171
Storage : NAS Share Management ...................................................................................... 172
Storage : NAS Share Management : Security Settings ....................................................... 172
Storage : NAS Snapshot Management ................................................................................ 172
Storage : Shares .................................................................................................................. 173
Storage : Target Management ............................................................................................. 173
Storage : Target Management : Security ............................................................................. 173
Replication ............................................................................................................................... 174
Replication Feature Table .................................................................................................... 174
Synchronous Local SAN Volume Replication ...................................................................... 175
Synchronous SAN Volume Replication using a Remote Box .............................................. 176
Creating a New Synchronous Replication Pair .................................................................... 177
Managing your Synchronous Replication Pair from the Replication Management page ..... 179
Creating a New Snap Assisted Replication Pair .................................................................. 181
Managing your Snap Assisted Pairs from the Replication Management page .................... 184
High Availability .................................................................................................................... 186
Managing your High Availability Pair from the High Availability Management page ............ 188
Replication Management ...................................................................................................... 190
Replication Management : Create New Replication Wizard ................................................ 190
Replication Management : Create New Replication ............................................................ 191
Storage Resource Management (SRM) .................................................................................. 192
Storage Resource Management (SRM) ............................................................................... 192
Data Collection, Analysis and Trending Module .................................................................. 192
Storage Provisioning and Capacity Management ................................................................ 193
Performance Trending .......................................................................................................... 194
CPU Utilization and Memory Utilization ............................................................................... 195
Workflow Management ......................................................................................................... 195
Backup and Restoration Management ................................................................................. 195
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and Container Space Management (CSM) ........ 196
Basic Concepts .................................................................................................................... 197
StorTrends Tiered Storage and ILM (Scaling across tiers) .................................................. 197
Information Retention Regulations ....................................................................................... 199
How StorTrends Tiered Storage and ILM Works ................................................................. 199
StorTrends Tiered Storage and CSM (Scaling within tiers) ................................................. 201
How StorTrends Tiered Storage and CSM Works ............................................................... 202
Space Utilization ................................................................................................................... 203
Volume Performance ............................................................................................................ 204
IO Performance .................................................................................................................... 205
Logical Drive Performance ................................................................................................... 206
System Performance ............................................................................................................ 207
Information Lifecycle Management ...................................................................................... 209
Container Space Management............................................................................................. 210
Appendix A RAID .................................................................................................................. 211
Introduction to RAID ................................................................................................................. 211
RAID Benefits ........................................................................................................................... 211
Improved I/O ......................................................................................................................... 211
Increased Reliability ............................................................................................................. 211
RAID Overview......................................................................................................................... 212
Disk Striping ............................................................................................................................. 212
Disk Mirroring ........................................................................................................................... 213
Selecting a RAID Level ............................................................................................................ 214
RAID 0 ...................................................................................................................................... 215
RAID 1 ...................................................................................................................................... 215
RAID 1n .................................................................................................................................... 216
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