Glossary – HP SAN Virtualization Services Platform User Manual

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Glossary

This glossary defines acronyms and terms used with the SVSP solution.

access path

A specific series of physical connections through which a device is recognized
by another device.

active boot set

The boot set used to supply system software in a running system. Applies to the
DPM.
See also

boot set

.

active path

A path that is currently available for use.
See also

passive path

, and

in use path

.

active/active RAID A storage device that presents volumes on multiple ports, and the volumes are

simultaneously active on all ports. See the product release notes.

active/passive
RAID

A storage device that presents volumes on multiple ports of multiple storage
controllers, and at any point in time a volume is only active on the ports of one
controller and passive on the ports of the other controllers. Applies to the HP
EVA.

active/standby
RAID

One storage device per path is in use and the others are in backup/standby
mode. See the product release notes.

ALUA

A SCSI term for asymmetrical logical unit access.

asynchronous
mirroring

A mode of data mirroring in which the updates on the mirror site are always
lagging behind the source site.

auxiliary virtual
disk

In VSM, either of the following:

A backup virtual disk created by a migration task that initially resides on the
destination storage pool and switches to the source storage pool when the

•

task is complete. After task completion, the auxiliary virtual disk contains the
data that the original virtual disk created when the migration group was
created.

•

A virtual disk created by mirroring for the VSM agent on a VSM server to
keep track of the state of the sync mirror group that mirrors the setup virtual
disk and its tasks.

back-end LU

In VSM, a logical unit (LUN) of storage presented by a storage system (for
example, an EVA).

back-side path

A path between the Data Path Module and the physical storage (for example,
an HP EVA).

boot set

Either of two selectable locations provided by the Data Path Module for storing
a system software image.

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