HP 3000 Enterprise Virtual Array - Manual (Page 60)

Command View EVA
60 Enterprise Virtual Array 3000 User Guide
Controlling and Monitoring Storage System Components
This section discusses controlling and monitoring storage system components.
The components controlled using Command View EVA are:
■ Virtual Disks
■ Hosts
■ Disk Groups
■ Data Replication Groups
■ Hardware
All of these components are accessible using the folders in the Navigation pane, as
shown in
Figure 18 .
Figure 18: Storage system components
Virtual Disks
A virtual disk (Vdisk) is a virtualized disk drive created by the controllers as
storage for one or more hosts. Virtual disk characteristics provide a specific
combination of capacity, availability, performance, and accessibility. The
controller pair manages virtual disk characteristics within the disk group specified
for the virtual disk.
The host computer sees the virtual disk exactly like it would see a physical disk
with the same characteristics.