text: **Statesave**
  Binary data collection that is used for a problem determination by IBM service support. 
  
  **Storage area network or SAN**
  A SAN is a dedicated storage network that is tailored to a specific environment, which 
  combines servers, systems, storage products, networking products, software, and services. 
  
  **Storage pool (managed disk group)**
  A storage pool is a collection of storage capacity, which is made up of MDisks, that provides 
  the pool of storage capacity for a specific set of volumes. A storage pool can contain more 
  than one tier of disk, which is known as a multitier storage pool and a prerequisite of Easy 
  Tier automatic data placement. 
  
  **Striped**
  Pertaining to a volume that is created from multiple MDisks that are in the storage pool. 
  Extents are allocated on the MDisks in the order specified. 
  
  **Support Assistance**
  A function that is used to provide support personnel remote access to the system to perform 
  troubleshooting and maintenance tasks. 
  
  **Symmetric virtualization**
  Symmetric virtualization is a virtualization technique in which the physical storage, in the form 
  of a RAID, is split into smaller chunks of storage known as extents. These extents are then 
  concatenated, by using various policies, to make volumes. See also “Asymmetric 
  virtualization” on page 770. 