Figure 8 Storage management process example
Physical storage elements
The lowest level of storage management occurs at the physical drive level. Minimally, choosing
the best disk carving strategy includes the following policies:
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Analyze current corporate and departmental structure.
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Analyze the current file server structure and environment.
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Plan properly to ensure the best configuration and use of storage.
Determine the desired priority of fault tolerance, performance, and storage capacity.
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Use the determined priority of system characteristics to determine the optimal striping
policy and RAID level.
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Include the appropriate number of physical drives in the arrays to create logical storage
elements of desired sizes.
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