Managing Your Storage Space. Adaptec RAID 31205, RAID 31605, RAID 3085, Serial Attached SCSI RAID 4800SAS, Serial Attached SCSI RAID 4805SAS, RAID 3405, RAID 3805, RAID 4000, 1891300 - RAID Controller
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Managing Your Storage Space
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In this chapter...
Once you have installed your Adaptec RAID controller, disk drives (or other devices), and device driver, you can begin to build and manage your storage space.
This chapter introduces Adaptec Storage Manager, and describes the other utilities included with your Adaptec RAID controller.
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About Adaptec Storage Manager
Note: Currently, Adaptec Storage Manager is not supported on FreeBSD. To create and manage arrays, use the ARC
for more information.
Adaptec Storage Manager is a full-featured software application that helps you build a storage space for your online data, using Adaptec RAID controllers and disk drives.
With Adaptec Storage Manager, you can group disk drives into logical drives and build in redundancy to protect your data and improve system performance.
From a single workstation, you can use Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor and manage all the controllers and disk drives in your storage space, including DAS and NAS.
When Adaptec Storage Manager is installed on a computer, the Adaptec Storage Manager agent is also installed automatically. The agent is like a service that keeps your storage space running.
It’s designed to run in the background, without user intervention, and its job is to monitor and manage system health, event notifications, task schedules, and other on-going processes on that system. It sends notices when tasks are completed successfully, and sounds an alarm when errors or failures occur on that system.
The agent uses less memory than the full application. If your storage space includes systems that won’t be connected to monitors (and therefore won’t require the user interface), you can choose to run the agent only on those systems instead of the full application. For more information, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager online Help, or to the Adaptec Storage
Manager User’s Guide f or Internal RAID Storage on the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation
CD.
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager
Adaptec Storage Manager is included on the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD. For installation instructions, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User’s Guide f or Internal RAID
Storage , also included on the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD.
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility
The Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration (ARCCONF) is a command line utility that you can use to perform some basic array and configuration management functions.
With ARCCONF, you can:
● Create and delete logical drives
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Modify and copy configuration settings
Recover from disk drive failures and troubleshoot
ARCCONF and the Command Line Interface (CLI) f or Internal RAID Storage User’s Guide, which describes how to use ARCCONF, are included on the Adaptec Storage Manager
Installation CD.
Note: Adaptec recommends that only advanced users familiar with command line interfaces use ARCCONF. Currently, ARCCONF is not supported on FreeBSD. To create and manage arrays, use the ARC
utility. See page 63 for more information.
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About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
The Adaptec RAID Configuration (ARC) utility is a BIOS-based utility that you can use to create and manage controllers, disk drives and other devices, and arrays. The ARC utility comprises these tools:
● Array Configuration Utility (ACU)—For creating and managing arrays, and initializing and rescanning disk drives. (ACU for DOS is also available. See
.)
● A -Select utility—SerialSelect, SATASelect®, or SCSISelect®, for modifying your controller and disk drive settings.
Disk Utilities—For formatting or verifying disk drives.
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TheARC utility is included in your controller’s BIOS. For more information, see
Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility on page 84 .
Note: The ARC utility is primarily intended for preoperating system installation configuration.
About the Adaptec Flash Utility
The Adaptec Flash Utility (AFU) is a text-based DOS utility that you can use to update, save, or verify your RAID controller’s firmware BIOS and Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
(NVRAM).
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Caution: Although the AFU contains safeguards to prevent you from accidentally damaging your RAID controller’s flash contents, it is still important to use the AFU carefully and correctly to avoid rendering your RAID controller inoperable.
Adaptec recommends that only advanced users familiar with working in DOS use the AFU.
Which Utility Should I Use?
To create a bootable array, Adaptec recommends that you use the BIOS-based ACU (See
Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility on page 84 ).
For all subsequent storage management tasks, Adaptec recommends that you install and use
Adaptec Storage Manager (see page 62 ). As a full-featured software application with a graphical
user interface, it is the easiest to use and offers the widest range of management functions.
Note: Currently, Adaptec Storage Manager is not supported on FreeBSD. To create and manage arrays, use the ARC
utility. See Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility on page
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