Glossary - HP StorageWorks P4000 User Manual

Glossary

Cluster
Remote Copy
HP StorageWorks
P4000 SRA for
VMware SRM
Management
group
Manager
Remote Copy
schedule
Snapshot
Virtual Center
Server
VMware Site
Recovery Manager
Volume
A grouping of storage systems that create the storage pool from which you create
volumes.
Asynchronous replication of data across geographic distances. Remote Copy
uses existing volume and snapshot functions along with the Remote Copy
technology to perform this asynchronous replication.
The HP StorageWorks P4000 SRA is the program that integrates the VMware
SRM with HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN Solution arrays. The HP StorageWorks
P4000 SRA automates the storage management required for testing and
performing disaster recovery at sites using SAN/iQ Remote Copy to protect
data.
A collection of one or more storage systems which serves as the container within
which you cluster storage systems and create volumes for storage.
Managers are storage systems within a management group that you designate
to govern the activity of all of the storage systems in the group.
A series of remote snapshots up to a specified number or for a specified time
period, that are copied from the primary volume to a remote volume, usually in
a different geographic location. When the specified limit is reached (either
number of remote snapshots or time period), the earliest Remote Copy snapshot
is deleted when the new one is created.
A fixed version of a volume for use with backup and other applications.
A service that acts as a central administrator for VMware servers connected on
a network. This service directs actions on the virtual machines and the virtual
machine hosts. VirtualCenter Server is the working core of VMware® Virtual
Center.
VMware SRM is designed to protect information systems from disasters. It
streamlines and automates the protection of critical virtual machines with data,
and continuously tests their availability.
A logical entity that is made up of storage on one or more storage systems. It
can be used as raw data storage or it can be formatted with a file system and
used by a host or file server.
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