Adaptec 2268300R manual About Adaptec Storage Manager, Installing Adaptec Storage Manager

Chapter 9: Managing Your Storage Space ● 80

About Adaptec Storage Manager

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.

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 on the Adaptec Installation DVD.

Installing Adaptec Storage Manager

Adaptec Storage Manager is included on the Adaptec Installation DVD. For installation instructions, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User’s Guide, also included on the installation DVD.

About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility

The Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration (ARCCONF) is a command line utility that you can use to perform basic array and configuration management functions.

With ARCCONF, you can:

●Create and delete logical drives

●Modify and copy configuration settings

●Recover from disk drive failures and troubleshoot your system

ARCCONF is described in the Adaptec RAID Controller Command Line Utility User’s Guide, which is included on the Adaptec Installation DVD.

Note: The distribution includes a command line utility for VMware systems called Remote ARCCONF. For details, see Which Utility Should I Use on VMware? on page 81.