Installing Power Console Plus - LSI SCSI 320-0 Configuration

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Installing Power Console Plus

Power Console Plus is an object-oriented GUI utility that lets you efficiently
configure, and monitor a large RAID array of disks locally or over a network
with several servers. This is for servers that support Windows NT and 2000 and
are capable of monitoring and being monitored, and for servers that support
NetWare 4.x and 5.0, which can be monitored, but cannot monitor.
You can use Power Console Plus to control and monitor the status of each
physical drive connected to the MegaRAID controller. You can us it to control
and monitor the status of hard disk drives, tape drives, and CD-ROM drives.
Power Console Plus can be executed from any workstation. It runs under most
Microsoft Windows operating systems, with support for Novell NetWare.
Apart from the standard menu structure, the Power Console Plus user interface
is object-oriented: the picture of an object on the screen truly represents a
physical or logical object. You can right click the mouse on an object to display
a set of options for the selected object.
Features The Power Console Plus features include:
• a
configuration wizard that guides you through the configuration process
•
FlexRAID functionality for seamless online expansion without interrupting server
operations
•
on-the-fly RAID level migration
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support for SAF-TE (SCSI accessed fault-tolerant enclosure), SNMP, and SMART
•
check consistency can be scheduled to constantly ensure that parity and mirrored
data is written correctly
•
performance monitor
•
enclosure management to monitor temperature, power supply voltage, and fan status
•
virtual sizing for drive migration under Windows NT
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ability to change logical drive write, read, and cache policies after the logical drive
has been configured
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ability to save the configuration option
• ability to spin down physical drives before removal
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ability to view actual current SCSI transfer rate
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silent install
•
battery backup support
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complete system monitoring capability
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