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cooperating systems that must adhere to a common framework and a common
language or protocol.
soft zoning A fabriczoning methodthatfilters thevisibilityof objectson thestoragenetwork
sothat anobjectcanonly seeotherobjectsthat shareatleast onezonemembership
withit. Unlikehardzoning, softzoning isnotenforced attheswitches themselves.
See also hard zoning.
storage area network
(SAN)
See SAN
storage array A collection of disks or tapes that are part of a storage subsystem, managed as a
unit by a body of control software. The disks or tapes may be housed in a single
physical device or in multiple devices. See also disk array tape device.
storage device See device.
storage pool A single entity representing a collection of LUNs. Using storage pools, storage
administrators can create virtual disks of different sizes. These virtual disks can
then be assigned to virtual machines.
Storage System A NetApp unified storage device that operates using Data ONTAP software.
MultiStore Virtual Systems, also known as Multistore devices, can be configured
on physical filers (pfilers). See also NetApp unified storage.
storage view A logical port defined for an array that supports SMI-S 1.1. When a storage view
isdefined, thearraycan supportLUNmasking withmultiple,heterogeneoushosts
through a single physical array port. See also array virtual port.
striping A layout technique that spreads data across several physical disks by mapping
thedata tosuccessive media,knownas stripes,ina cyclicpattern. AlsoRAIDLevel
0.
subnet A portion of a storage network typically consisting of all machines in one locale,
in one building, or on the same local area network (LAN). Internet Request for
Comments 950 provides the standard procedure for creating and identifying
subnets.
subnet mask A 32-bit mask that identifies the portions of an IP address to be used for locating
addresses in a subnetwork.
switch Anetwork devicetowhichnodesattach andwhichprovideshigh-speedswitching
of node connections via link-level addressing.
Symantec Private
Branch Exchange (PBX)
A common component that uses socket passing to reduce the number of ports
required to be open across a firewall. PBX uses a paradigm similar to that of a
telephone switchboard in which calls placed to a switchboard are redirected to a
known extension.In the PBX exchange,client connections sentto the exchange’s
port areredirected to an extension associatedwith the CommandCentral Storage
Management Server.
47CommandCentral Glossary