Network And Storage Planning - HP StorageWorks 8000 - NAS Overview

Network and Storage Planning

This section contains pre-planning materials that the installation specialist can review with the
customer before the NAS 8000 system arrives onsite. It includes:
System Overview: a conceptual overview of the storage system of the HP NAS 8000 SAN
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HA solution, including:
— Storage Overview and Terminology
— HA Storage Configuration
— Determining Available Disk Space
Planning Worksheets to record network and storage settings. The information in the
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planning worksheets is required to install and configure the system.
— Storage Planning
— High Availability Planning
— Network Planning
You need to construct an overall storage architecture by:
1. Determining the amount of total storage available
2. Deciding how to allocate it to different groups or functions
Storage space is spread across volume groups. In these volume groups, you must create file
volumes to divide your disk space. It is important that you plan storage space prior to creating
file volumes. Although the HP NAS 8000 lets you expand your volume groups later, you may
want to reserve extra space during setup to allow for the use of snapshots.
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