Terminology

A
• account
  The definition associating a resource pool with a role for a user. A user account has access to the resources and features defined in the resource pool as well as the permissions to interact with those resources and features as defined in the role.
• appliance
  The virtual machine containing the ECX application and Catalog, accessible through VMware vSphere client. The appliance is also referred to as the virtual appliance or virtual machine.
C
• Catalog
  The ECX database where object metadata is stored for rapid retrieval and reporting. Cataloging objects located on a resource enables browsing, searching, analyzing, copying, and using data in ECX. The ECX Catalog resides on the appliance.
• Catalog Browser
  A feature enabling you to explore cataloged resources and their underlying objects and object metadata. Drill into the Catalog Browser to logically view the details of the objects underlying a storage system, virtual host, or application. The Browse and Search features provide visibility into your IT environment.
• Catalog Data Policy
  A policy for gathering and recording objects and object metadata about specified NetApp, VMware, and DPX resources.
• Catalogic DPX™
  An application that protects the data in your virtual, physical and cloud-based environments. DPX integrates backup and recovery, tape backup, disaster recovery, and bare metal recovery as copy data services that reduce both backup and recovery times through instantly mountable recoveries.
• Catalogic ECX™
  An application that delivers visibility, insight, and control into your IT environment.
• clone mode
  A Use Data Policy mode where virtual machines are created in a fenced network for use cases requiring permanent or long-running copies.
• Copy Data Management
  The ability to understand where data copies are located in your IT environment, and leverage the most appropriate copy for any given use case.
• Copy Data Policy
  A policy that leverages Copy Data Management technology for replicating and intelligently reusing snapshots, vaults, and mirrors.
D
• dashboard
  A feature of the Management Interface that displays an overview of your ECX environment when you first invoke ECX.
• DPX provider
  A master server or storage server that is used in a Catalogic DPX application enterprise.
• DPX Reports
  A category of reports that evaluate your associated DPX environment. Through the reports you can view the status of your DPX secondary volumes, licensing information, RPO compliance, and other statistics.
E
• ECX
  An application that delivers visibility, insight, and control into your IT environment.
• ECX System Management Reports
  A category of reports that offer an in-depth view of the status of your ECX configuration, including licenses, cataloged storage system information, and policies.
• EMC provider
  An EMC storage unit such as the VNX series.
F
• File Analytics Reports
  A category of reports that help you review your storage needs and examine your storage capacity. Use the File Analytics Reports to drill down to information about the size of files, the age of files, and type of files on your storage systems.
• FlashCopy
  An IBM technology that creates point-in-time snapshots.
G
• Global Mirror
  An IBM technology that provides data replication between two locations.
I
• IBM provider
  An IBM storage controller such as an SVC.
• Instant Access
  A method of copy data management that provides instant writable access to copied data. A snapshot is mapped to a target server where it can be accessed, copied, or put immediately into production use as needed.
• Instant Virtualization
  A method of copy data management that creates a virtual machine by directly mapping snapshots for fast startup.
J
• job
  An execution of a policy.
L
• LDAP provider
  A server that accesses centralized data including user and authentication information.
M
• management interface
  The browser-based portal through which the ECX application is viewed and managed.
• mirror
  An efficient block-level data replication technique that produces exact replicas for disaster recovery.
• monitor
  A feature enabling you to monitor job sessions and execute certain job control functions. From the monitor, you can view all scheduled and unscheduled job sessions, and start, stop, and resume jobs.
N
• NetApp provider
  A NetApp storage system such as a FAS.
O
• object
  A resource that has metadata about it stored in the Catalog. Examples of objects are files, directories, qtrees, and volumes.
P
• policy
  A defined set of tasks and rules that govern the execution of a job. A policy can be applied to one or more jobs. ECX includes support for the following policy types: Catalog Data policies, Copy Data policies, Use Data policies, Analyze Data policies, Script policies.
• production mode
  A Use Data Policy mode which restores a resource to the production environment from secondary storage or a remote disaster recovery site.
• Protection Compliance Reports
  A category of reports that help ensure your data is protected through user-defined recovery point objective parameters.
• provider
  An object repository, physical or virtual, from which object metadata is retrieved. ECX includes support for the following provider types: NetApp storage systems, VMware servers, DPX master and storage servers, SMTP hosts, LDAP servers.
• Provider Browser
  A feature enabling you to view a list of registered resources and their underlying resources. The Provider Browser scans the actual resource and returns native properties.
R
• RBAC
  A feature that allows an administrator to set the resources and permissions available to ECX user accounts.
• register
  The process that allows ECX to recognize a resource. The resource can subsequently be cataloged by using a catalog data policy.
• report policy
  A policy that runs predefined or customized reports summarizing information about objects and object metadata managed by cataloged resources. A report policy is a type of Analyze Data policy, and provides insight into your IT environment.
• resource pool
  A defined set of resources, such as providers, features, and screens, that are available to a user. The resource pool is associated with a role when defining a user account.
• RMAN
  Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN), a command-line and Enterprise Manager-based tool, is the method preferred by Oracle DBAs for backup and recovery of Oracle databases, including maintaining an RMAN repository.
• role
  A defined set of actions that can be performed by a user. The role is associated with a resource pool when defining a user account.
• role-based access control
  A feature that allows an administrator to set the resources and permissions available to ECX user accounts.
S
• schedule
  A defined set of triggers and parameters that govern when a job is run.
• script policy
  A policy that runs a set of commands on the ECX appliance. The script policy is one way to extend the functionality of ECX.
• Search
  A feature used to find objects on resources that are cataloged in ECX. ECX searches the entire Catalog and returns all objects with a name that matches or contains the search entry. Additionally, you can search with filters such as object name, category, object type, and location. The Search feature and the Catalog Browser provide visibility into your IT environment.
• site
  A grouping of resources generally by location. Resources are grouped by site to help with resource management and assignment.
• SMTP provider
  A message server that submits email notifications at the end of jobs.
• snapshot
  A point in time image of a resource.
• Storage Protection Reports
  A category of reports that help ensure your data is protected and display the status of your replication process. Use the Storage Protection Reports to view qtrees that are protected using NetApp SnapVault or NetApp SnapMirror functionality and volumes that are protected using NetApp SnapMirror functionality. You can also view unprotected qtrees and volumes to help plan your data protection strategies.
• Storage Utilization Reports
  A category of reports that help you review your storage needs and examine your storage capacity. View the total and free space available as well as the total capacity of your volumes and aggregates.
• Super User
  The initial native user provided with the application. The Super User can perform all ECX operations.
T
• tenant
  A tenant is a grouping of resources and users that are administered by a tenant administrator. An ECX administrator creates tenants, assigns resources to be made available to the tenants, and creates the tenant administrator. The tenant administrator can then further control and restrict resources for users in the tenant group, as well as add additional users to the tenant through LDAP.
• test mode
  A Use Data Policy mode where temporary virtual machines are created in a fenced network for such uses as development/testing, snapshot verification, and disaster recovery verification.
U
• Use Data Policy
  A policy that leverages Copy Data Management technology for reusing and recovering resources from snapshots, vaults, and mirrors.
• user
  An ECX user, either native to ECX or imported through LDAP. The word "user" in lowercase refers generically to any type of user.
V
• vault
  An efficient block-level data replication technique that produces snapshot copies on secondary storage for long term scenarios such as archiving.
• VMware provider
  A VMware host such as an ESX/ESXi or a vCenter server.
W
• workflow
  A grouping of subpolicies that are sequentially joined together for creating copy data and use data policies. A workflow is defined visually by the storage administrator in the management interface.

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