Storage Management Overview; Storage Management Elements; Storage Management Example - HP StorageWorks X1800sb - Network Storage Blade User Manual

2 Storage management overview

This chapter provides an overview of some of the components that make up the storage structure of
the storage system.

Storage management elements

Storage is divided into four major divisions:
• Physical storage elements
• Logical storage elements
• File system elements
• File sharing elements
Each of these elements is composed of the previous level's elements.

Storage management example

Figure 1 depicts many of the storage elements that one would find on a storage device. The following
sections provide an overview of the storage elements.
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