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Tandberg Viking Series Storage Server Administration Manual
3.
Storage & File Server
Management
This chapter provides an overview of some of the component that make up
the storage structure of the Viking Series NAS appliance.
3.1. Storage Management Element
Storage is divided into four major divisions:
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Physical storage elements
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Logical storage 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.
3.
1.1. Physical Storage Element
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.
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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.
