Chapter 1: Introduction

Features

Your Gateway 840 has a menu-based software utility designed to configure and manage the RAID controller in your new storage enclosure. It provides centralized management to control primary storage assets vital to ensuring maximum data reliability, network up-time, and system serviceability. It lets you manage the storage system by accessing the configuration utility locally.

This software guide provides the operational and reference information to configure and manage the SATA RAID controller installed in your Gateway 840, using this menu-based user interface.

The following are some of the major features of local RAID configuration utility.

Simple, straight-forward user interface

Menu-based interface that works with a wide range of operating systems

Easy access and navigation

Host LUN and LUN mapping configuration

A comprehensive, non-volatile event log

Useful offline or online diagnostics

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