Storage definitions beginning with L

LANE - permalink - collapse

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LAN Emulation. The architecture, protocols, and services that allow ATM-connected end systems to use the ATM network as if it were a LAN.
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Browse Related Terms: Heterogeneous Network, Host, IP Address, NAS (Network-Attached Storage), Point of Presence (POP), POP, server

LAN (Local Area Network) - permalink - collapse

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A network of interconnected workstations sharing the resources of a single processor or server, typically within the area of a small office building.
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Browse Related Terms: ADSM (ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager), API (application program interface), application service provider (ASP), bind, HCD (Hardware Configuration Definition), ISMF (Interactive Storage Management Facility), VDS (Virtual Disk Service), virtual local area network (VLAN), VLAN

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LCU (Library Control Unit) - permalink - collapse

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connects a StorageTek tape robotic unit to a Library Management Unit (LMU) and controls the robot movement.
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Browse Related Terms: CAP (Cartridge Access Port), ECAP (Enhanced Cartridge Access Port), LMU (Library Management Unit), MSBF (Mean Swaps Between Failures), PTP (Pass-Through-Port), RAIL (Redundant Array of Independent Libraries)

LDAP - permalink - collapse

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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. A client-server protocol for accessing a directory service. NetCache can be configured to point to an LDAP server for authentication of user requests; later versions of Data ONTAP can use Microsofts Active Directory, which uses LDAP.
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Browse Related Terms: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), RADIUS, Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS)

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LFS - permalink - collapse

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Log-structured File System. A file system that avoids both multiple-write and synchronous-write problems by batching large numbers of writes into large, contiguous writes.
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Browse Related Terms: DFS, DFS (Distributed File System), Distributed File System (DFS), FRS (File Replication Service), log-structured file system (LFS), Mount Point, NTFS file system

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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) - permalink - collapse

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A client-server protocol for accessing a directory service. NetCache can be configured to point to an LDAP server for authentication of user requests; later versions of Data ONTAP can use Microsofts Active Directory, which uses LDAP.
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Browse Related Terms: LDAP, RADIUS, Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS)

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little-endian - permalink - collapse

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A binary data format for storage and transmission in which the least significant byte comes first.
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Browse Related Terms: big-endian, Yottabyte, Zettabyte

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A type of networking switch that is able to utilize additional information beyond a simple destination MAC/IP address to distribute, or load balance, incoming requests across servers or caches according to various algorithms.
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Browse Related Terms: Client, DNS caching, feeder server, flush, forward proxy, keepalive, news cache, prefetch, proxy mode, proxy server, reader server, Transparency, WCCP, Web accelerator, Web cache, Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP)

Load Balancing - permalink - collapse

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Referring to the ability to redistribute load (read/write requests) to an alternate path between server and storage device, load balancing helps to maintain high performance networking.
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Browse Related Terms: ABARS (Aggregate group Backup And Recovery Support), ACS (Automatic Class Selection), Asymmetric Multi-Processing, Block Data, blocking factor, IBG (InterBlock Gap), ILM (Information Lifecycle Management), increment chain, SMS (Storage Management Subsystem), Throughput

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local cluster - permalink - collapse

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A cluster located in a single data center. This type of cluster is not disaster tolerant.
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Browse Related Terms: asymmetrical cluster, campus cluster, cluster, Cluster Interconnect, extended distance cluster, Geo-Dispersed Cluster, heartbeat network, Metrocluster, metropolitan cluster, MPOF (Multiple Points of Failure), SPOF (Single Point of Failure)

local failover - permalink - collapse

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Failover on the same node; this most often applied to hardware failover, for example local LAN failover is switching to the secondary LAN card on the same node after the primary LAN card has failed.
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Browse Related Terms: automatic failover, cascading failover, CFO, client reconnect, clustered failover (CFO), failover, manual failover, multiple system high availability, remote failover, transparent failover

local filer - permalink - collapse

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The filer you are logged in to.
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Browse Related Terms: cluster monitor, nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM), NVRAM, NVRAM mirror

local group - permalink - collapse

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A collection of user accounts and global groups in a Windows NT domain. Unlike global groups, local groups can contain members from other, trusted domains.
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Browse Related Terms: Backup Domain Controller (BDC), BDC, DC, domain controller (DC), global group, NT domain, PDC, Workgroup