Glossary - HP XP P9500 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.
BC P9000 or XP Business Copy. An HP 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 partition.
Cnt Ac-S P9000 or XP Continuous Access Synchronous software.
command device A volume in the disk array that accepts Continuous Access, Business Copy, or P9000 for Business
Continuity Manager control operations, which are then executed by the array.
CT group Consistency group.
CU Control Unit. Used to organize the storage space attached to the disk controller ( 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, both the CU number and the
LDEV number are required to identify an LDEV.
CVS Custom volume size. 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. An 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. A LUN results from mapping a logical unit number, port ID, and LDEV ID to
a RAID group. The size of the LUN is determined by the emulation mode of the LDEV and the
number of LDEVs associated with the LUN.
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 Main control unit.
MU Mirror unit.
OPEN- x
A general term describing any 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, and OPEN-E), and OPEN-V, which has a variable size and is a CVS-based
volume.
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