Intel 410 manual Installing and Using the RAID Manager for Windows NT

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Installing and Using the RAID Manager for Windows NT

This chapter contains instructions for installing the RAID Manager software, configuring the system, and creat- ing an initial configuration. This chapter also contains sheets for recording your configuration.

NOTE

The procedures in this chapter assume that the write-back cache module batteries have been fully recharged, as described in Chapter 1 of this guide. If you have not yet recharged your write- back cache batteries, you should do so at this time.

3.1RAID Manager for Windows NT

The RAID Manager for Windows NT is a graphical user interface that facilitates configuring and monitoring your RAID 410 subsystem.

Some capabilities of the manager include:

∙Creates single-disk units, RAID 0 (Stripesets), RAID 1 (Mirrorsets), RAID 0+1, and RAID 5/3 (RAIDsets), and Spares.

∙Examines and modifies LUN parameters

∙Examines and modifies controller parameters

∙Monitors the addition and removal of disk drives from the array

∙Permits you to identify hot-spare drives that the system can use for automatic LUN re- construction

Additional information regarding the RAID Manager for Windows NT is contained in the manual, RAID 410 Manager for Alpha/Intel User’s Guide , (AA–QU63C–TE). For additional background information regarding RAID and RAIDsets, refer to the manual, SWXRC RAID Array Controller User’s Guide (EK–SMCS1–UG).

3.2Overview: Installing and Using the RAID Manager for Windows NT

The steps required to Install and run the RAID Manager for Windows NT include the follow- ing:

∙Install the RAID Manager software on your computer system. This can be the system to which the RAID Array 410 is attached, or it can be on a different Windows NT system.

∙Set the communications parameters required by the maintenance port on the SWXRC-04 controller.

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