HP Surestore NAS 8000 SAN 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:

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System Overview: a conceptual overview of the storage system of the HP NAS 8000 SAN,

including:

— Storage Overview and Terminology

— Basic Storage Configuration

— Determining Available Disk Space

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Planning Worksheets: to record network and storage settings for the HP NAS 8000 SAN

system. The information in the planning worksheets is required to install and configure the

system.

— 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. In these volume groups, file volumes divide the

disk space into smaller units. It is important to plan storage space prior to creating file volumes.

Although the HP NAS 8000 SAN 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.