Adaptec 133U2 - AAA RAID Controller User Manual page 166

Adaptec CI/O Management Software User's Guide
MIF
Stands for Management Information Format. The management
interface for an entity managed by the Desktop Management
Interface (DMI).
mirroring; mirrored array
Synonym for RAID 1. Full redundancy is obtained by
maintaining identical copies of data on two or more disks.
Mirroring provides fault tolerance, with a minor performance
penalty.
monitoring
The process of receiving, displaying, and logging system
events.
O
offline array
An array which is not responding.
offset
The distance from the beginning of a disk to the start of a
partition.
online capacity expansion
The incremental expansion of a RAID container/array with no
down time and while still retaining all of the attributes of the
original container/array (RAID type and performance)
P
parity
In RAID, a form of redundancy used to recreate the data of a
failed drive in a disk array. Used in RAID levels 2, 3, 4 and 5.
password time-out options
Options that allow you to control the way in which users are
prompted to enter the system's Adaptec CI/O Management
Software password when they issue commands to change a
server's array configuration.
pause I/O
The temporary suspension of input/output on a channel.
physical resources
The AAC Family Adapter products, channels, and SCSI devices
installed in the server.
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