Glossary - HP StorageWorks P9000 - Disk Arrays Manual

Glossary

allocation The ratio of allocated storage capacity versus total capacity as a percentage. Allocated storage
refers to those logical devices (LDEVs) that have paths assigned to them. Allocated storage capacity
is the sum of the storage of these LDEVs. Total capacity is the sum of the capacity of all LDEVs
on the disk array.
async Asynchronous.
BC HP StorageWorks P9000 or XP Business Copy. An HP StorageWorks application that provides
volume-level, point-in-time copies in the disk array.
CHA Channel adapter. A device that provides the interface between the array and the external host
system. Occasionally, this term is used synonymously with the term channel host interface processor
(CHIP).
CLI Command-line interface. An interface comprised of various commands which are used to control
operating system responses.
CLPR cache logical partitions.
Cnt Ac-S HP StorageWorks P9000 or XP Continuous Access Synchronous software.
command device A volume in the disk array that accepts HP StorageWorks Continuous Access, HP StorageWorks
Business Copy, or HP StorageWorks P9000 Business Continuity Manager control operations,
which are then executed by the array.
CT group Consistency group.
CU Control Unit. The Control Unit is used to organize the storage space attached to the DKC, you
can group similarly configured logical devices (LDEVs) with unique control unit images (CUs).
CUs are numbered sequentially. The disk array supports a certain number of CUs, depending
on the disk array model. Each CU can manage multiple LDEVs. Therefore, to uniquely identify a
particular LDEV requires both the CU number and the LDEV number.
CVS CVS devices (OPEN-x CVS or 3390-x CVS) are custom volumes configured using array
management software to be smaller or larger than normal fixed-size OPEN or mainframe system
volumes. Synonymous with volume size customization (VSC). OPEN-V is a CVS-based volume.
DKA Disk adapter.
DKC Disk controller.
fence level A method of setting rejection of P9000 or XP Continuous Access write I/O requests from the host
according to the condition of mirroring consistency.
FICON Fibre connectivity. A FC layer 4 protocol used to map mainframe channel command and data
I/O operations onto standard FC infrastructure, protocol and FC services.
HBA Host bus adapter.
LCP Local control port.
LDKC Logical disk controller.
LUN Logical unit number.
LUSE Logical Unit Size Expansion. The LUSE feature is available when the HP StorageWorks LUN
Manager product is installed, and allows a LUN, normally associated with only a single LDEV,
to be associated with 1 to 36 LDEVs. Essentially, LUSE makes it possible for applications to access
a single large pool of storage.
M-VOL Main volume.
MCU Master control unit.
MU Mirror unit.
OPEN- x A general term describing any one of the supported OPEN emulation modes (for example,
OPEN-E. There are two types of OPEN-x devices: legacy OPEN-x devices with a fixed size (such
as, OPEN-3, OPEN-8, OPEN-9, OPEN-E), and OPEN-V, which has a variable size and is a CVS
based volume.
P-VOL Primary volume.
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