Thecus Technology i Series User Manual

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WT
 
W
rite-Through cache write policy. A caching technique in 
which the completion of a write request is not signaled until 
data is safely stored on non-volatile media. Each data is 
synchronized in both data cache and the accessed physical 
disks. 
WB
 
W
rite-Back cache write policy. A caching technique in which 
the completion of a write request is signaled as soon as the 
data is in cache and actual writing to non-volatile media 
occurs at a later time. It speeds up system write performance 
but needs to bear the risk where data may be inconsistent 
between data cache and the physical disks in one short time 
interval. 
RO
 
Set the volume to be Read-Only. 
DS
 
D
edicated Spare disks. The spare disks are only used by one 
specific VG. Others could not use these dedicated spare disks 
for any rebuilding purpose. 
GS
 
 
G
lobal  Spare disks. GS is shared for rebuilding purpose. If 
some VGs need to use the global spare disks for rebuilding, 
they could get the spare disks out from the common spare 
disks pool for such requirement. 
DC
 
D
edicated Cache. 
GC
 
G
lobal Cache. 
DG 
D
eGraded mode. Not all of the array’s member disks are 
functioning, but the array is able to respond to application 
read and write requests to its virtual disks. 
S.M.A.R.T.
 
S
elf-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. 
WWN 
W
orld Wide Name. 
HBA
 
H
ost Bus Adapter. 
MPIO
 
M
ulti-Path Input/Output. 
MC/S 
M
ultiple Connections per Session 
NIC
 
N
etwork Interface Card. 
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