Physical DKC This is synonymous with physical storage.
R
RDM Abbreviation for Raw Device Mapping.
It is the function of vSphere which directly assigns LU on the storage to the virtual machine as
a virtual device.
RSG Abbreviation for Resource Group
S
S-VOL Abbreviation for Secondary Volume
Single Sign On This is the application to perform the integration management of the authentication to vCenter
Server.
Snapshot An optional function of the disk array system.
A function for creating a logical replica of the copy source (P-VOL) when specifying Snapshot
to the virtual volume (V-VOL) in the disk array system.
Storage
Management
Software
This is the software to operate disk array systems including the status reference and configuration
setting of the disk array systems. See Table 8-2.
V
V-VOL Abbreviation for Virtual Volume
vCenter Abbreviation for VMware vCenter Server
vCenter Server vCenter Server is management server software from VMware Inc., and is used to control the
virtual environment overall. Centralized control is available by collecting multiple ESX Servers
at the data center
VDKC-Box Indicates the frame to manage the virtual ID which is configured in the physical DKC.
Virtual DKC This is synonymous with virtual storage.
VMDK Abbreviation for Virtual Machine Disk
VMFS Abbreviation for Virtual Machine File System
VMware Guest to
Guest Backup
(FC) function
This is the function to use the virtual machine configured on ESXi provided by VMware as the
server of the import destination of VSS Provider.
XP P9500/XP7 can be used as disk array systems.
vSphere Client This is the virtual machine environment management console provided by VMware. vSphere
Client manages virtual machine and datastore by connecting to vCenter Server or ESXi Server
VSS Abbreviation for Volume Shadow Copy Service
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