Glossary 99, Glossary – Dell Compellent Series 40 User Manual

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Glossary

A

activate disaster recovery

Process of mapping a volume to a server so that you can use it to run IO through.

active space

Amount of space that is used by a volume if the volume has no Replays attached to it. This
number does not include RAID overhead.

actual space

Amount of active space plus Replay space.

assigned disks

Disks that have been assigned to a folder and are part of the Dell Compellent page pool.

async/asynchronous replication

A write is written to the local system, then queued for delivery to the remote system. If the
local system fails before the write is delivered, it is possible that writes will not be delivered
to the remote system.

available space

Amount of total storage available on all drives.

B

bandwidth

Amount of data that can be sent to or from Storage Center per internal time.

base price

Agreed upon price for basic storage.

BE (back end)

Connection between controller and disks.

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