Hardware manual

Group Administration Glossary
Glossary–10
VDS provider
(hardware) The EqualLogic VDS provider is a component of the Host Integration T
ools that enables you use
Microsoft Storage Manager for SANS to create and manage volumes in a PS Series Group.
volume
Storage allocated by a PS Series group as an addressable iSCSI target.
volume collection
(Group Manager) A number of volumes g
r
ouped together for purposes of performing operations on the volumes
simultaneously. See also snapshot collection and replica collection.
volume administrator
An account on a PS Series group that has permission to manage
a quota of storage in one or more pools. A volume
administrator can perform any volume operations, including replication, within their quota limit.
volume reserve
(Group Manager) Amount of space allocated to a volume from free pool spa
ce. Without thin provisioning, volume
reserve is the same as reported size.
vss-control volume
(Auto-Snapshot Manager) A special logical volume that enables Mic
rosoft VSS/VDS services to communicate
with a PS Series array. The vss-control volume appears as a non-initialized disk in the Windows Disk Management
interface.
XMLlogsize
(hardware) The variable that controls the size of ehcmn.log.