Sun Microsystems 2500 manual Profile, Provisioning, Remote monitoring, Remote scripting CLI client

profile

See storage profile.

provisioning

The process of allocation and assignment of storage to hosts.

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RAID

An acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks, a family of techniques for managing multiple disks to deliver desirable cost, data availability, and performance characteristics to host environments. Also, a phrase adopted from the 1988 SIGMOD paper A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks.

remote monitoring

Monitoring of the functions and performance of a hardware system from a location other than where the hardware resides.

remote scripting CLI client

A command-line interface (CLI) that enables you to manage the system from a remote management host. The client communicates with the management software through a secure out-of-band interface, HTTPS, and provides the same control and monitoring capability as the browser interface. The client must be installed on a host that has network access to the system.

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SAN

See storage area network (SAN).

site LAN

The local area network at your site. When the system is connected to your LAN, the system can be managed through a browser from any host on the LAN.

snapshot

An copy of a volume’s data at a specific point in time.

SSCS

Sun Storage Command System. The command-line interface (CLI) that can be used to manage the array.

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