Disk aggregation
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Disk aggregation is the process of combining more than one logical or physical disk drive into a larger logical disk
drive.
This is done for various reasons :
Logical disk
A logical disk is a device that provides an area of usable storage capacity on one or more physical disk drive components in a computer system. Other terms that are used to mean the same thing are partition, logical volume, and in some cases a virtual disk .The disk is described as logical because...
drive.
This is done for various reasons :
- creating a single logical disk with a capacity larger than any of the available physical disks
- providing a simple way to increase disk performance
- a simple way to implement LUN level storage virtualization