AMCC 9500S, 9550SX, 9590SE, 9650SE manual Supported Operating Systems, Terminology

Supported Operating Systems

You can use the CLI to view unit status and version information and perform maintenance functions such as adding or removing drives. 3ware CLI also includes advanced features for creating and deleting RAID units online.

For a summary of what you can do using the CLI, see “Common Tasks Mapped to CLI Commands” on page 19.

Supported Operating Systems

The 3ware CLI is supported under the following operating systems:

•Windows®. Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003, both 32-bit and 64-bit.

•Linux®. Redhat, SuSE, both 32-bit and 64-bit.

•FreeBSD®, both 32-bit and 64-bit.

For specific versions of Linux and FreeBSD that are supported for the 3ware

CLI, see the Release Notes.

Terminology

This document uses the following terminology:

Logical Units. Usually shortened to “units.” These are block devices presented to the operating system. A logical unit can be a one-tier, two-tier, or three-tier arrangement. JBOD, Spare, and Single logical units are examples of one-tier units. RAID 1 and RAID 5 are examples of two-tier units and as such will have sub-units. RAID 10 and RAID 50 are examples of three-tier units and as such will have sub-sub-units.

Port. A controller has one or many ports (typically 4, 8, 12, 16). Each port can be attached to a single disk drive. On a controller such as the 9590SE-4ME, with a multilane serial port connector, one connector supports four ports.

For additional information about 3ware controller concepts and terminology, see the user guide that came with your 3ware RAID controller or the user guide portions of the 3ware HTML Bookshelf.

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