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The following terms are used with PowerStore.
Term | Definition |
Appliance | Term used for solution containing a base enclosure and any attached expansion enclosures. The size of an appliance could be only the base enclosure or the base enclosure plus expansion enclosures. |
Base enclosure | Used to reference the enclosure containing both nodes (node A and node B) and the NVMe drive slots. |
Cluster | Multiple PowerStore appliances in a single grouping. Clusters can consist of one appliance or more. Clusters are expandable by adding more appliances. A cluster supports up to four appliances. |
Expansion enclosure | Enclosures that can be attached to a base enclosure to provide 25 additional SAS-based drive slots. |
Node | The component within the base enclosure that contains processors and memory. Each appliance consists of two nodes. |
PowerStore Manager | The web-based user interface (UI) for storage management. |
Storage volumes (volumes) | PowerStore volumes using block storage. These volumes are displayed in the Block area of the PowerStore dashboard. |
Virtual Volumes (vVols) | VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols). These volumes are displayed in storage containers within PowerStore Manager. |
Watchlist | Configurable list of volumes or hosts that are available on the dashboard for quick reference and monitoring. |