HP Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 -UX 11i v3 manual

526 Glossary

Where there are multiple physical access paths to a disk connected to a system, the disk is called multipathed. Any software residing on the host, (for example, the DMP driver) that hides this fact from the user is said to provide multipathing functionality.

node

One of the hosts in a cluster.

node abort

A situation where a node leaves a cluster (on an emergency basis) without attempting to stop ongoing operations.

node join

The process through which a node joins a cluster and gains access to shared disks.

Non-Persistent FastResync

A form of FastResync that cannot preserve its maps across reboots of the system because it stores its change map in memory.

object

An entity that is defined to and recognized internally by VxVM. The VxVM objects are: volume, plex, subdisk, disk, and disk group. There are actually two types of disk objects— one for the physical aspect of the disk and the other for the logical aspect.

parity

A calculated value that can be used to reconstruct data after a failure. While data is being written to a RAID-5 volume, parity is also calculated by performing an exclusive OR (XOR) procedure on data. The resulting parity is then written to the volume. If a portion of a RAID-5 volume fails, the data that was on that portion of the failed volume can be recreated from the remaining data and the parity.

parity stripe unit

A RAID-5 volume storage region that contains parity information. The data contained in the parity stripe unit can be used to help reconstruct regions of a RAID-5 volume that are missing because of I/O or disk failures.

partition

The standard division of a physical disk device, as supported directly by the operating system and disk drives.

path

When a disk is connected to a host, the path to the disk consists of the HBA (Host Bus Adapter) on the host, the SCSI or fibre cable connector and the controller on the disk or disk array. These components constitute a path to a disk. A failure on any of these results in DMP trying to shift all I/O for that disk onto the remaining (alternate) paths. Also see Active/Passive disk arrays, primary path and secondary path.

pathgroup

In the case of disks which are not multipathed by vxdmp, VxVM will see each path as a disk. In such cases, all paths to the disk can be grouped. This way only one of the paths from the group is made visible to VxVM.

Persistent FastResync