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Storage

The Storage page is where you define volume groups, pools, volumes and hosts; monitor performance; and set up snapshots and mirroring.

  • Pools and volume groups
    The Pools and Volume Groups page allows you to create logical storage capacity from a subset of unassigned drives in your storage array. This logical capacity can take the form of either a pool or a volume group, depending on the needs of your environment.
  • Volumes
    The Volumes page is where you create the storage containers for your applications, databases, and file systems. A volume is the logical component created for the host to access storage on the array.
  • Hosts
    Host operations allow you to define the servers that send data to the storage array.
  • Performance
    The Performance page provides easy ways for you to monitor the performance of your storage array.
  • Snapshots
    The Snapshot feature allows you to create point-in-time images of storage array volumes to use for backup or testing.
  • Asynchronous mirroring
    The Asynchronous Mirroring feature provides a controller-level, firmware-based mechanism for data replication between a local storage array and a remote storage array. Asynchronous mirroring is created on a per-volume basis but managed at a group level, allowing you to associate a distinct remote mirrored volume with any primary volume on a given storage array.
  • Synchronous mirroring
    The Synchronous Mirroring feature provides online, real-time data replication between storage arrays over a remote distance. Storage array controllers manage the mirroring operation, which is transparent to host machines and software applications.