VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Glossary
active/active disk arrays This type of multipathed disk array allows you to access a disk in the disk array
through all the paths to the disk simultaneously, without any performance degradation.
active/passive disk arrays This type of multipathed disk array allows one path to a disk to be designated
as primary and used to access the disk at any time. Using a path other than the designated active path
results in severe performance degradation in some disk arrays Also see path primary path and secondary