HP ProLiant ML350 G5 Storage Server Administration Guide (5697-5854, September 2006)

Single Server Cluster Implementation
Physical Disks
Logical Drives
RAID Arrays
Selective Storage
Presentaion
Visible Disks
Partitioning
NTFS Volumes
Shadow Copies
(Snapshots)
Cluster Physical
Disk Resources
Fault-tolerant
CIFS/SMB and
NFS File Shares
Cluster Virtual
Server Groups
(Network Name)
(IP Address)
(Cluster Admin)
File Folders
Storage
Elements
Logical
Storage
Elements
File
System
Elements
Shadow Copy
Elements
Cluster
Elements
File
Sharing
Elements
CIFS and NFS
File Shares
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Figure 8 Storage management process example
Physical storage elements
Thelowestlevelofstoragemanagementoccursatthephysicaldrivelevel.Minimally,choosingthebest
disk carving strategy includes the following policies:
• Ana lyze current corporate and de partmental structure.
• Anal
yze the current file ser ver structure and environment.
• Plan properly to ensure the best c onfiguration and use of storage.
• D etermine the desired priority of fault tolerance, performance, and storage capacity.
•Use
the determined priority of system characteristics to determine the optimal striping policy
and RAID level.
• Include the appropriate number of p hysical drives in the arrays to create log ical storage elem ents
of desired sizes.
36 Storage management overview