HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Data Protection Storage Server Administration Guide (434184-001, September 2006)

4 Storage management over view
This chapter provides an overview of some of the components that make up the storage structure of
theHPProLiantDataProtectionStorageServer.
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 16 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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