Glossary
ADIC Technical Assistance Center (ATAC)
The ADIC customer help desk.
Affinity
An association between a relation point in the file system and a stripe group. It allows the user to direct data to specific primary disks by writing to the affinities associated relation point.
Clean Media
The operation of logically removing old file versions from a piece of media. This is a database operation that removes knowledge of managed files that have been updated or removed. A piece of media that contains nothing but removed files will not be considered blank until it is cleaned.
Configuration Wizard
A tool for setting up a basic environment for the management of data, both on disk and on removable media (tape or disk). It appears the first time the administrator connects to the browser after installing StorNext.
Data Storage Manager (DSM)
One of several components that make up StorNext. The DSM corresponds to the StorNext File System.
Drive Pool
A grouping of drives for use in storing and retrieving data.
Fibre Channel (FC)
A high speed data transfer architecture.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
The protocol used on the Internet for sending files.
GUI
Graphical User Interface.
Managed Directory
A directory that has a policy class relationship.
Managed File System
A file system that enables automatic data movement managed by StorNext Storage Manager between the primary disk and secondary storage (either disk or tape).
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