HP ProLiant Storage Server User Guide (440584-001, February 2007)

2 Storage management overview
This chapter provides an overview of some of the components that m ake up the storage structure of the
HP ProLiant Storage Server.
Storage management elements
Storage is divided into four major divisions:
• Physical storage elements
• Logical stora
ge elements
• File system elements
• File sharing elements
Each of these elements is composed of the previous level's elements.
Storage management example
Figure 3 depicts many of the storage elements that one would find on a storage device. The following
sections provide an overview of the storage elements.
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