HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software User Manual

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VSAN (VSAN 1) that initially includes all ports, and an isolated VSAN (VSAN 4094)

where ports end up if their owning VSAN is deleted.

W

Web-Based Enterprise

Management

(WBEM)

Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is an initiative based on a set of

management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management

of enterprise computing environments. WBEM provides the ability for the industry to

deliver a well-integrated set of standard-based management tools leveraging the

emerging technologies such as CIM and XML.

Windows

Management

Instrumentation

(WMI)

Microsoft created WMI as its implementation of Web-based Enterprise Management

(WBEM). For more information about WMI, refer to the Microsoft Web site at
http://www.microsoft.com

.

The Windows CIM Extension enhances Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

so that it can gather information from host bus adapters and make the information

available to the management server.

Worldwide Name

(WWN) zoning

A type of zoning in which the port is assigned to a Worldwide Name of a host or a

storage system. It is not dependent on the switch.

WWN (Worldwide

Name)

Fibre-channel Worldwide Name. Usually formatted as 16-hexadecimal digits. This

name is globally unique, and it identifies the connection or set of connections to the

network.

Z

zone

A collection of zone aliases and ports.

zone alias

To avoid remembering a port's Worldwide Name (WWN), assign the port to a zone

alias.

zone member

A zone member is a port attached to a switch, a Worldwide Name (WWN) or a zone

alias.
As a best practice, a zone should contain either zone aliases or ports, but not both.

zone set

A zone set is a collection of zones. You can have only one zone set active in a fabric;

however, you can have a zone in more than one zone set. Zones sets are usually

created for a particular task.

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