About storage components

In the System Management Console, HCP uses storage components to represent primary running storage, primary spindown storage, economy storage, and each physical device and cloud storage service that’s used to access a specific type of extended storage. Each storage component is intended to represent all storage devices that share a common access point (whether that’s the HCP system, an external device, or a cloud storage service) and that provide a specific set of data availability, price, and performance characteristics.

HCP uses storage components to provide you with an interface to:

Configure HCP to provide the information that HCP needs to use to access specific extended storage devices and cloud storage service endpoints.

Configure HCP to monitor, manage, and use all of the storage that’s represented by one or more storage components of the same type as a single storage pool.

Monitor the health, availability, capacity, and usage of the storage that’s represented by each component (primary running storage, primary spindown storage, economy storage, and each extended storage device and cloud service endpoint), and appropriately provision storage.

Retire economy or extended storage that is represented by a single storage component or retire all of the storage that’s represented by the components in a single storage pool.

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