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administrative operations on resources, including starting, stopping, restarting, and monitoring at the service group level.

Veritas NetBackup A Symantec product family that provides a fast, reliable backup and recovery solution for environments ranging from terabytes to petabytes in size. The term NetBackup refers to either of two products that interact with the CommandCentral Storage product: Veritas NetBackup DataCenter and Veritas NetBackup BusinesServer.

Veritas Volume Manager A Symantec product installed on storage clients that enables management of physical disks as logical devices. Veritas Volume Manager enhances data storage management by controlling space allocation, performance, data availability, device installation, and system monitoring of private and shared systems.

virtual fabric

A storage area network (SAN) technology in which a group of switches and other

 

objects constitute a hardware-based, isolated environment within a physical fabric.

 

Virtual fabrics create multiple, isolated SAN environments within a physical SAN

 

fabric in order to enable more efficient use of the SAN, especially in terms of

 

availability and scalability. Also called virtual SAN or VSAN.

virtual hub

A set of switch ports on the same fabric that are placed into a logical grouping

 

and use an address spoofing mechanism to emulate a Fibre Channel Arbitrated

 

Loop (FC-AL) hub. A virtual hub can be comprised of all the ports on a single switch

 

or several ports on one or more switches. It is used primarily to allow older

 

loop-only devices to be attached to a switched fabric and be accessible as though

 

they were fabric capable.

virtual IP address

A unique IP address associated with a VCS cluster. This address can be used on

 

any system in the cluster, along with other resources in the VCS cluster service

 

group. A virtual IP address is different from a system’s base IP address, which

 

corresponds to the system’s host name. See also IP address.

virtual machine

An environment or software container that does not physically exist but is created

 

in another environment. A virtual machine can run its own operating systems

 

and applications as if it were a physical computer.

virtual SAN

See virtual fabric.

virtualization

A method of representing one or more objects, services, or functions as a single

 

abstract entity so that they can be managed or acted on collectively. An example

 

of virtualization is the creation of a virtual fabric from a switch and associated

 

storage resources as a means of controlling access and increasing scalability in

 

the storage network.

virtualization server

A server that hosts multiple virtual machines with the help of a virtualization

 

application, such as VMware. The virtualization server provides virtualization

 

data to the Management Server.

visible storage

Allocated LUNs that are zoned to a host.

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