Glossary – EMC CLARiiON User Manual

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Glossary

This glossary contains terms related to disk storage systems. Many of
these terms are used in this manual.

A

admhost

An executable program that you can run interactively via script. It
runs only on Microsoft Windows

Server 2003 or Windows 2000

operating systems, and works with layered-driver devices (for
example, SAN Copy, SnapView and MirrorView/A devices), and
non-layered-driver devices.

admsnap

An executable program that you can run interactively or via a script
to manage SnapView clones and snapshots. The Admsnap Utility
resides on the servers connected to the storage system with the
SnapView driver. Admsnap runs on Microsoft Windows (Windows
Server 2003 and Windows 2000), AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, NetWare,
and Solaris operating systems.

Agent

See Host Agent.

arbitration

The process of selecting one respondent from a group requesting
service at the same time.

B

bind

In the context of disk-array storage systems, the procedure by which
you assign one or more disks to one LUN number.You can bind
modules as one of the following RAID types: RAID 5 (independent
access array), RAID 3 (parallel access array), RAID 1 (mirrored pair),

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