Terminology, Terminology 4-3 – HP Workstation xw8000 User Manual

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Using the Command Line Interface

From the UNIX/Linux prompt

To access the CLI from the UNIX/Linux prompt, display a
window and type aaccli in any directory. When the system
displays the CLI> prompt, you can use CLI commands. For the
commands to work in any directory, the path in the startup file
(.login or .cshrc) must include the directory where the
software is installed. See your UNIX/Linux documentation for
information on setting up directory paths in the .login and
.cshrc

files.

Terminology

For a complete discussion of terminology, see the

Glossary

in this

guide.

Table 4-1

lists and defines some terms used in this chapter

and is presented here for your ease-of-use:

Table 4-1 Terminology Chart

Term

Preferred Term

Definition

container

array

A logical disk created from
available space and made up of one
or more segments on one or more
physical disks.

chunk

stripe

Contiguous set of data written to
one segment before the controller
moves to the next segment.

freespace

available space

Space on an initialized disk that is
not in use.

partition

segment

Contiguous area of a physical drive
that makes up some or all of an
array.

failover disk

hot spare

Drive available to replace a failed
component in an array.

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