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Job Manager A utility in Adaptec Storage Manager that you can use to monitor
jobs as they progress.
See also job.
LAN Local Area Network. A network of interconnected systems sharing
the resources of a single server, typically within the area of a small
office building.
local system The computer (or system ) that you’re working on. In Adaptec
Storage Manager, ‘local’ and ‘remote’ are relative terms. See also
remote system.
logical device One or more disk drives grouped together to appear as a single
device to an OS. Also known as a logical drive.
managed system A computer (or system ) with direct attached storage that’s being
managed by Adaptec Storage Manager.
Management Service A component of Adaptec Storage Manager that coordinates and
enables communication between your iSCSI Storage Appliance
and the iSCSI Storage Hosts on your IP SAN. The Management
Service also: monitors your iSCSI Storage Appliance and IP SAN;
generates event alerts when activity, errors, or failures occur;
controls access to Adaptec Storage Manager and your IP SAN;
monitors jobs in progress and can schedule jobs to occur at a
future time. Similar to the Agent, the Management Service runs in
the background, requires no user intervention, and includes no
user interface. You must install the Management Service on at least
one system on the same subnet as your iSCSI Storage Appliance.
mirror manager A volume that is being mirrored. See also mirroring, mirror plex.
mirror plex A mirror copy of a volume. See also mirroring, mirror manager.
mirroring In RAID technology, data protection that duplicates all data from
one drive onto a second drive.
See also Two disk drives, where
one disk drive is a mirror of the other (the same data is stored on
each disk drive)..
In Adaptec Storage Manager, a feature that lets you create a copy
of a volume. When a volume is
mirrored , a second volume
residing on second iSCSI Storage Appliance is used to duplicate
the data on the volume.
See also mirror manager, mirror plex.
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