Product Overview
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NAS b2000 v2 Quick Start Guide
Storage Management Overview
This section provides an overview of the components that make up the NAS
storage structure. A complete discussion of the components and their relationships
is available in the administration guide.
Caution:
This section on storage management and Windows LDM is required
reading material for the NAS administrator. This section develops the concepts
and requirements that serve as the basis for successfully using an
HP
StorageWorks
NAS device. Failure to read this section and the appropriate
sections on storage management in the administration guide may lead to data
loss or file corruption.
Storage Management Elements
Figure 4
provides an illustration of the various storage components of the
NAS b2000 v2. Storage is broken up into five major divisions:
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Storage elements
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Logical storage elements
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Persistent Storage Manager Elements
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File system elements
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File sharing elements
Each of these elements is composed of the previous level’s elements.
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