HP SureStore E SAN Manager LUN Management Administrator's Guide

Naming Conventions 151
SAN Storage Management
Naming Conventions
Assigned storage appears as local storage to SAN Manager LM hosts.When you assign a
partitioned device to a host or share group, one or more separate partitions are listed by
drive letter and volume label (if available) in Windows Explorer/My Computer on the
host(s) with access. Volume labels are assigned when you format a device with Disk
Administrator or with Windows NT’s Quick Format command.
Note If you assign a raw (unpartitioned) disk to a host, it will not be listed in
Windows Explorer/My Computer until you partition it in Disk Administrator.
SAN Manager LM lists devices as members of device groups with device names:
If the Manuals device shown in the previous illustration has three partitions, but has not
been formatted in Windows NT, when this device is assigned to a host, its three partitions
are listed as drives with drive letters and no volume labels:
Partitions from the
Manuals device