Tandberg Data Viking FS-1600 manual Storage & File Server Management, Storage Management Element

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3. Storage & File Server Management

This chapter provides an overview of some of the component that make up the storage structure of the Viking Series NAS appliance.

3.1.Storage Management Element

Storage is divided into four major divisions:

•Physical storage elements

•Logical storage elements

•File system elements

•File sharing elements

Each of these elements is composed of the previous level's elements.

3.1.1. Physical Storage Element

The lowest level of storage management occurs at the physical drive level. Minimally, choosing the best disk carving strategy includes the following policies:

•Analyze current corporate and departmental structure.

•Analyze the current file server structure and environment.

•Plan properly to ensure the best configuration and use of storage.

o Determine the desired priority of fault tolerance, performance, and storage capacity.

oUse the determined priority of system characteristics to determine the optimal striping policy and RAID level.

•Include the appropriate number of physical drives in the arrays to create logical storage elements of desired sizes.

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