6-20 Installing and Using Utilities

Adaptec Storage Manager

Adaptec Storage Manager (hereinafter abbreviated to ASM) is an application that locally or remotely manages HostRAID storage system and provides RAID functions through the SCSI interface on the Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition in your server. You can use the following functions for HostRAID by installing ASM in your system.

Features

„Creating disks at a level of RAID0, RAID1, or RAID10

„Creating Hot Spare disks that are to be used for automatically executing Rebuild if a redundant disk array enters the Degraded state

„Making a consistency check on redundant disk arrays

„Recording HostRAID events into the event log

Before attempting to operate ASM, read the "Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide" included in NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD-ROM. The manual explains the ASM installation procedure and notes on operating ASM.

IMPORTANT: You cannot install ASM with EXPRESS Setup. Install

ASM manually.