Glossary

AL

Arbitrated loop.

AL-PA

Arbitrated loop physical address.

array group

A group of 4 or 8 physical hard disk drives (HDDs) installed in an XP disk

 

array and assigned a common RAID level. RAID1 array groups are made

 

up of 4 HDDs (2D+2D). A RAID1 group is two 4 HDD array groups

 

concatenated together (4D+4D). RAID5 array groups are made up of 4 or 8

 

HDDs, depending on whether they are RAID5 3D+1P or RAID5 7D+1P,

 

respectively. All RAID6 array groups are made up of 8 HDDs (6D+2P).

BC

HP StorageWorks Business Copy XP. BC lets you maintain up to nine local

 

copies of logical volumes on the disk array.

CA

HP StorageWorks Continuous Access XP. CA lets you create and maintain

 

duplicate copies of local logical volumes on a remote disk array.

Command View

HP StorageWorks Command View XP, a software product for managing XP

(CVXP)

arrays. Command View runs on a Windows-based management workstation.

Command View XP

HP StorageWorks Command View XP Advanced Edition, installs on the

Advanced Edition

user-provided Device Manager server and provides a browser-based

(CVXP AE)

platform from which you can manage the XP family of disk arrays—even

 

globally distributed arrays.

command device

A volume on the disk array that accepts Continuous Access or Business Copy

 

control operations which are then executed by the disk array.

CU

Control Unit. Contains LDEVs and is approximately equivalent to SCSI

 

Target ID.

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