Network And Storage Planning - HP StorageWorks 8000 - NAS Overview

Network and Storage Planning

This section contains pre-planning materials that the installation specialist can review with the
customer before the NAS 8000 system arrives onsite. It includes:
System overview: a conceptual overview of the storage system of the HP NAS 8000 HA,
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including:
— Storage Overview and Terminology
— HA Storage Configuration
Planning worksheets to record the required network and storage settings for the NAS 8000
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HA system. The information in the planning worksheets is required to install and configure
the system:
— Calculating Available Disk Space
— Storage Planning
— High Availability Planning
— Network Planning
You need to construct an overall storage architecture by:
1. Determining the amount of total storage available
2. Deciding how to allocate it to different groups or functions
Storage space is spread across volume groups. In these volume groups, file volumes divide the
disk space. It is important to plan storage space prior to creating file volumes. Although the HP
NAS 8000 HA lets you expand volume groups later, you may want to reserve extra space
during setup to allow for the use of snapshots. For more information, see "Snapshots" on
page 7.
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