HP Surestore NAS 8000 Direct Attach Solution Integration Manual

Network and Storage Planning 5
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,
including:
— Storage Overview and Terminology
— Basic Storage Configuration
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Planning Worksheets: tables to record network and storage settings for the HP NAS 8000.
The information in the planning worksheets is required to install and configure the system.
— Calculating Available Disk Space
— Storage 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. Volume groups are subdivided into file
volumes. It is important to plan storage space prior to creating file volumes. Although the HP
NAS 8000 lets you expand volume groups later, you may want to reserve extra space during
setup to allow for the use of snapshots. For additional information, see
Snapshots on page 7.
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