HP StorageWorks iSCSI Feature Pack User Guide
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Glossary
Host:
File and application servers that access Logical Units.
Internet Storage Name Service
(iSNS): Facilitates device discovery in storage networks.
For the iSCSI Feature Pack, iSNS facilitates the naming, registration, and discovery of iSCSI
Logical Units by host initiators. Your HP iSCSI Feature PackHP includes iSNS software that
can be activated if Microsoft's iSNS software is not available.
iSCSI Initiator
: Devices which request, or initiate, iSCSI data writes and reads. Each host
can have multiple initiators, depending upon the number of network interface cards (NICs)
that it has. However, each initiator can only be associated with a single host.
Logical Unit
(LU): The basic unit of iSCSI storage, a LU is a logically mapped disk device
that is created from a physical disk or from a storage pool.
Physical Disk
: A single, physical hard disk.
Raw disk
: A portion of a physical disk. The contents of a raw disk are not managed by the
operating system and cannot be accessed by users (unlike with file systems).
Storage Pool
: A group of one or more physical devices from a hardware RAID set (on
systems with external storage).
Virtual Disk
: A collection of one or more physical disks that are members of the same RAID
set configured by a hardware RAID controller or the Windows operating system. A virtual
disk is seen by the operating system as a single disk. When using hardware RAID, the RAID
functioning is hidden from the operating system.