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Table of Contents
About this Guide.................................................................................. v
Overview of the User’s Guide ............................................................ vi
1
Introduction................................................................................... 1
1.1
System Description............................................................... 2
1.2
Feature Summary................................................................. 3
1.3
Feature Highlights ................................................................ 6
2
Installation..................................................................................... 1
2.1
System Requirements .......................................................... 2
2.2
Hardware Setup.................................................................... 3
2.3
In-band SCSI........................................................................ 8
2.4
Software Setup................................................................... 22
2.5
Upgrading Firmware ........................................................... 27
3
Basic Operations at Startup ......................................................... 1
3.1
Starting the GUI RAID Manager............................................ 1
3.2
Connecting and Disconnecting from a Disk Array.................. 4
3.3
Setting Up Security............................................................. 13
3.4
Displaying and Hiding the Toolbar ...................................... 14
3.5
Displaying and Hiding the Status Bar .................................. 16
3.6
Working with Windows........................................................ 18
3.7
Exiting GUI RAID Manager ................................................. 37
4
Array Management........................................................................ 1
4.1
Background Information........................................................ 3
4.2
Operation without Spare Drives ............................................ 5
4.3
Before you Start ................................................................... 7
4.4
Defining Enclosures.............................................................. 8
4.5
Setting Controller Configuration .......................................... 11
4.6
Setting Channel Configuration ............................................ 13
4.7
Scanning in Drives.............................................................. 17
4.8
Creating and Deleting Logical Drives .................................. 19
4.9
Assigning Spare Drives....................................................... 22
4.10
Rebuilding Logical Drives .................................................. 24
4.11
Creating and Deleting Logical Volumes.............................. 25
4.12
Creating and Deleting Partitions......................................... 28
4.13
Mapping Logical Volumes/Partitions to Host LUNs............. 32
4.14
Displaying the Event Log ................................................... 34
4.15
Monitoring Statistics........................................................... 36
4.16
Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion ...................................... 37