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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1054129">3DM2.</a></span> 3ware Disk Manager. The 3ware disk manager is a web-based graphical user interface that can be used to view, maintain, and manage 3ware controllers, disks, and units. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1072509">3ware. </a></span>Named after the 3 computer wares: hardware, software and firmware. A leading brand of high-performance, high-capacity Serial ATA (SATA) and SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) RAID storage solutions.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1072491">A-Chip</a></span>. AccelerATA chip. Automated data ports to handle asynchronous SATA or SAS disk drive interface.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051110">Array.</a></span> One or more disk drives that appear to the operating system as a single unit. Within 3ware software, arrays are typically referred to as units.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1086909">Array Roaming. </a></span>The process of swapping out or adding in a configured unit without having to shut down the system. This is useful if you need to move the unit to another controller. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1083504">Auto-Verify.</a></span> A unit policy that automates the verify process. When enabled, it performs verifies based on the Verify Schedule. It has two modes, Advanced, which has up to seven scheduling slots per week, or Basic, which has one.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1083509">Background rebuild rate</a></span>. The rate at which a particular controller initializes, rebuilds, and verifies redundant units (RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50).</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1079654">Boot volume size.</a></span> The size to be assigned to volume 0 when creating a unit through 3BM or CLI on a PC machine. Note that the resulting volume does not have to be used as a boot volume. However, if the operating system is installed on the unit, it is installed in volume 0.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1054302">CLI</a></span>. Command Line Interface. The 3ware CLI is a text program, rather than a GUI (graphical user interface). It has the same functionality as 3DM2, and can be used to view, maintain, and manage 3ware controllers, disks, and units. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051118">Controller. </a></span>The physical card from 3ware that you insert into a computer system and connect to your disk drives or enclosure. The controller contains firmware that provides RAID functionality. 3ware makes a number of different models of SATA RAID controllers. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1054137">Create an array</a></span>. The process of selecting individual disk drives and selecting a RAID level. The array will appear to the operating system as a single unit. Overwrites any existing unit configuration data on the drives. Note that in 3ware software tools, arrays are referred to as units.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1054138">DCB. </a></span>Disk configuration block. This is 3ware proprietary RAID table information that is written to disk drives that are in a RAID unit or single disk. The DCB includes information on the unit type, unit members, RAID level, and other important RAID information. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051123">Delete an array</a></span><span class="NoteHeading">. </span>Deleting an array (or unit) is the process of returning the drives in a unit to individual drives. This erases the DCB information from the drives and deletes any data that was on them. When a unit is deleted from a controller, it is sometimes referred to as being “destroyed.” If you want to remove a unit without deleting the data on it, do not delete it; instead use the Remove feature in 3DM2, and then physically remove the drives. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051134">ECC Error policy</a></span>. Determines whether an error detected during a rebuild stops the rebuild or whether the rebuild can continue in spite of the error. Specified by the <span class="UI-Element">Ignore ECC (Continue on Source Error When </span><span class="UI-Element">Rebuilding)</span> unit policy.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1080569">Expander.</a></span> Expanders are simple switches in enclosures that provide connectivity between the 3ware 9750 RAID controller and the other devices in the SAS domain. Expanders allow one phy to connect to multiple drives. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051809">Export a unit</a></span>. To remove the association of a unit with a controller. Does not affect the data on the drives. Used for array roaming, when you want to swap out a unit without powering down the system, and move the unit to another controller. Compare to Delete, which erases all unit configuration information from the drive. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1086972">Exportable unit or drive</a></span>. In 3BM (BIOS), exportable units and drives are those that will be available to the operating system when you boot your computer. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051137">Fault tolerant</a></span>. A RAID unit which provides the ability to recover from a failed drive, either because the data is duplicated (as when drives are mirrored) or because of error checking (as in a RAID 5 unit).</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051475">Firmware.</a></span> Computer programming instructions that are stored in a read-only memory on the controller rather than being implemented through software.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1054141">Grown defect. </a></span>Defects that arise on a disk from daily use. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051686">Hot spare.</a></span> A drive that is available, online, and designated as a spare. When a drive fails in a redundant unit, causing the unit to become degraded, a hot spare can replace the failed drive automatically and the unit will be rebuilt.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051141">Hot swapping</a></span>. The process of removing a disk drive from the system while the power is on. Hot swapping can be used to remove units with data on them, when they are installed in hot swap bays. Hot swapping can also be used to remove and replaced failed drives when a hot swap bay is used. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051142">Import a unit</a></span>. Attach a set of disk drives with an existing configuration to a controller and make the controller aware of the unit. Does not affect the data on the drives. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051143">Initialize.</a></span> For 3ware SATA RAID controllers, initialize means to put the redundant data on the drives of redundant units into a known state so that data can be recovered in the event of a disk drive failure. For RAID 1 and 10, initialization copies the data from the lower port to the higher port. For RAID 5, 6, and 50, initialization calculates the RAID 5 parity and writes it to disk (background initialization). This is sometimes referred to as <span class="Emphasis">resynching</span>, and does not erase user data. <span class="NoteHeading">Note:</span> If foreground initialization is done before the operating system has loaded, zeroes are written to all of the drives in the unit. This process, done through the 3ware BIOS, does erase existing data.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1086998">JBOD.</a></span> An unconfigured single drive. The acronym is derived from “just a bunch of disks.” Note that earlier versions of the 3ware RAID controller exported JBODs to the OS. This is no longer supported. Individual drives should be configured as Single Disks in order to be made available to the OS.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1072571">Migration. </a></span>The process of changing the characteristics of a unit. The change can be to expand the capacity of the unit (OCE), change the stripe size of the unit, change the unit from redundant to non-redundant, change the unit from non-redundant to redundant, and to change the unit from one type of redundant unit to another type of redundant unit (for example RAID 1 to RAID 5).</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1080355">Mirrored disk array (unit).</a></span> A pair of drives on which the same data is written, so that each provides a backup for the other. If one drive fails, the data is preserved on the paired drive. Mirrored disk units include RAID 1 and RAID 10.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051873">OCE (Online Capacity Expansion). </a></span>The process of increasing the size of an existing RAID unit without having to create a new unit. See also <span style="font-style: italic;">migration</span>.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1080595">Parity.</a></span> Information that the controller calculates using an exclusive OR (XOR) algorithm and writes to the disk drives in RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 50 units. This data can be used with the remaining user data to recover the lost data if a disk drive fails.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1081146">Port.</a></span> 3ware controller models have one or many ports (typically 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, or 28). Each port can be attached to a single disk drive. On a controller with a Multi-lane serial port connector, one connector supports four ports. On 9750 series controllers, connections are made with phys and vports (virtual ports). See “phy” and “VPort”.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1080320">Queuing</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><span class="NoteHeading"> </span>SATA drives can use Native Command Queuing (NCQ) to improve performance in applications that require a lot of random access to data, such as server-type applications. When NCQ is enabled, the commands are reordered on the drive itself.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1069905">RAID.</a></span> Redundant array of inexpensive disks, combined into a unit (array), to increase your storage system’s performance and provide fault tolerance (protection against data loss).</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1083488">Rapid RAID Recovery.</a></span> The Rapid Raid Recovery feature increases the speed with which a redundant unit can be made redundant again when a rebuild is required. It can also increase the speed of verification or initialization that may occur in the event of an unclean shutdown.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1088209">Read Cache. </a></span>Read Cache stores data from media locally on the controller to improve read access times for applications. The 3ware Read Cache feature also includes an Intelligent Mode, which enables Intelligent Read Prefetch (IRP). IRP includes a typical read-ahead caching method which is used to proactively retrieve data from media and store it locally on the controller with the anticipation that it may be requested by the host. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1088211">Rebuild task schedule</a></span>. The specification for when rebuilding, may occur, including start time and duration.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051156">Rebuild a unit</a></span>. To generate data on a new drive after it is put into service to replace a failed drive in a fault tolerant unit (for example, RAID 1, 10, 5, 6, or 50).</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051554">Redundancy.</a></span> Duplication of data on another drive or drives, so that it is protected in the event of a drive failure. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051555">Remove a drive. </a></span>The process of making a drive unavailable to the controller.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051556">Remove a unit. </a></span>The process of making a unit unavailable to the controller and the operating system. After a unit is removed it can be hot swapped out of the system. This is sometimes referred to as exporting a unit. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051881">RLM (RAID Level Migration).</a></span> The process of using an existing unit of one or more drives and converting it to a new RAID type without having to delete the original unit. For example, converting a single disk to a mirrored disk or converting a RAID 0 unit to a RAID 5 unit. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051161">Stagger time.</a></span> The delay between drive groups that will spin up, at one time, on a particular controller. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1080617">SAS.</a></span> SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) is a serial communication protocol for storage devices. The SAS protocol includes support for SAS and SATA devices.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1083702">SES (SCSI Enclosure Services).</a></span> The SES protocol allows the 9750 RAID controller to manage and report the state of the power supplies, cooling devices, displays, indicators, individual drives, and other non-SCSI elements installed in an enclosure. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051735">Stripe size</a></span>. The size of the data written to each disk drive in RAID unit levels that support striping. The size of stripes can be set for a given unit during configuration. The stripe size is user-configurable at 64 KB, 128 KB, or 256 KB. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1051177">Verify</a></span>. A process that confirms the validity of the redundant data in a redundant unit. For a RAID 1 and RAID 10 unit, a verify will compare the data of one mirror with the other. For RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 50, a verify will calculate RAID 5 parity and compare it to what is written on the disk drive.</div>
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