Sun Microsystems 2500 manual Glossary

Glossary

Definitions obtained from the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Dictionary are indicated with “(SNIA)” at the end. For the complete SNIA Dictionary, go to www.snia.org/education/dictionary.

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agent

The component of the system monitoring and diagnostic software that collects health and asset information about the array.

alarm

A type of event that requires service action. See also event.

alert

A subtype of an event that requires user intervention. The term actionable event often describes an alert. See also event.

array

Multiple disk drives that function as a single storage device. A high-availability (HA) array configuration has redundant controllers and expansion trays of disk drives.

array hot-spare

A disk that serves as a hot-spare within an array as part of the storage pool; a reserve disk that can be made available to all virtual disks within an array. See also hot-spare.

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