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<h1>Storage management architecture</h1> |
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The storage management APIs are based around 2 core concepts |
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<strong>Volume</strong> - a single storage volume which can |
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of storage and carving it up into volumes. A pool can be used to |
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a host adapter, an LVM group. |
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These two concepts are mapped through to two libvirt objects, a |
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