VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (VEA 500 Series) Getting Started

Glossary 47

main window

The main VERITAS Volume Manager window. This window contains a tree and grid that display

volumes, disks, and other objects on the system. The main window also has a menu bar, a toolbar,

and an optional Command Launcher.

A list of options or tasks. A menu item is selected by pointing to the item and clicking the mouse.

menu bar

A bar that contains a set of menus for the current window. The menu bar is typically placed across

the top of a window.

mirror

A copy of a volume and its data. There can be several mirrors per volume. The terms mirror and

plex are used synonymously.

node

In the VxVM tree, a node is an element attached to the tree.

In a cluster environment, a node is a host machine in a cluster.

object group

A group of objects of the same type. Each object group has a group icon and a group name. In

VxVM, object groups include disk groups, disks, volumes, controllers, free disk pool disks,

uninitialized disks, and file systems.

object tree

A dynamic hierarchical display of VERITAS Volume Manager objects and other objects on the

system. Each node in the tree represents a group of objects of the same type.

Object View Window

A window that displays a graphical view of the volumes, disks, and other objects in a particular

disk group. The objects displayed in this window are automatically updated when object properties

change. This window can display detailed or basic information about volumes and disks.

Organization principle for disk group

An organization principle is associated with a disk group. These disk groups have storage pools

present on them. Volumes created on such disk groups are maintained by ISP. Traditional volumes

cannot be created on these disk groups. You have the option of not associating a organization

principle to a disk group.