Storage Provisioning

Applications, volumes, tiering, and the underlying drive resources.

A volume is raw storage — before it can serve NAS shares (SMB/NFS) or object storage, it needs a ...

A mapping connects a block volume to a host — a registered iSCSI, Fibre Channel, or NVMeOF initia...

The recycle bin is an optional safety net for volume deletion. When it's enabled, deleting a volu...

Volumes can have an upper (faster) tier that writes land on first, with StorONE evacuating cold d...

An application is a logical namespace for grouping the volumes that belong to a single workload —...

A volume is the actual unit of storage StorONE presents to the outside world — as a block device ...

A physical drive goes through a simple lifecycle in StorONE: when it's first installed it shows u...

A drive enclosure is the physical chassis or JBOD that houses a set of drive bays (slots). Where ...

StorONE hosts connect to volumes over the network — iSCSI or NVMeOF — using the IP addresses conf...

An NVMeOF enclosure is an external drive shelf that exposes its drives over NVMeOF instead of bei...

Resources is the physical/infrastructure layer of a StorONE system: the drives, the drive pools b...

A drive pool is a group of drives that StorONE spreads a volume's erasure-coded data across. Ever...

A self-encrypting drive (SED) encrypts everything written to it in its own hardware, and needs a ...