Managing Shared Drives; Monitoring Non-Redundant Fibre Channel Fabrics - Compaq 112726-001 - ProLiant - 6500 Administrator's Manual

Compaq Insight Manager XE is a web-based management system that can also
be used to monitor cluster hardware components. Compaq Insight Manager
XE is an optional CD available upon request from the Compaq System
Management website at
www.compaq.com/sysmanage

Managing Shared Drives

There are two levels of management with shared drives in RA4000 Arrays or
RA4100 Arrays. The physical disks and the drive arrays created from them are
managed with the Array Configuration Utility (ACU). The logical drives are
created and managed with the Disk Management utility.
The ACU is first run during initial configuration of the shared storage
subsystem and can be run any time afterward to view existing drive arrays,
modify existing drive arrays, or add new drive arrays. The ACU is available
on the SmartStart and Support Software CD, which is found in the Compaq
Server Setup and Management pack. For additional information about the
ACU, see the Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4000 User Guide or the
Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4100 User Guide.
Disk Management is first run after the drive arrays have been created by the
ACU. Disk Management is used to partition the drive arrays, create logical
drives, and assign volume labels. For additional information about Disk
Management, see your Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
documentation.

Monitoring Non-Redundant Fibre Channel Fabrics

Each non-redundant Fibre Channel Fabric in a PDC/O1000 contains this
hardware:
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One or more Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4100s (RA4100
Arrays) or Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4000s (RA4000 Arrays)
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One single-port Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4000 Controller
(RA4000 Array Controller) installed in each RA4000 Array or RA4100
Array
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One Compaq StorageWorks Fibre Channel SAN Switch (Fibre Channel
SAN Switch)
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One Compaq StorageWorks 64-bit/66-MHz Fibre Channel Host Adapter
or Compaq StorageWorks Fibre Channel Host Adapter/P (Fibre Host
Adapter) installed in each server
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