About This Guide - Adaptec RAID 3085 User Manual

About This Guide

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Adaptec Storage Manager is a software application that helps you build a storage space
using Adaptec RAID controllers, disk drives, and enclosures, and then manage your stored
data, whether you have a single RAID controller installed in a server or a complex Storage Area
Network (SAN) or IPSAN with multiple RAID controllers, enclosures, and servers.
You can use Adaptec Storage Manager to manage both internal and external RAID storage.
This User's Guide describes how to install and use Adaptec Storage Manager to build and
manage internal RAID storage—a RAID controller and disk drives which reside inside, or are
directly attached to, the computer accessing them, similar to the basic configurations shown in
these figures:
Server with RAID controller System running
and disk drives Adaptec Storage Manager
Network (SAN)
Connection
Server with System running Server with Storage enclosures
RAID controller and Adaptec Storage Manager RAID controller, with disk drives
disk drives running Adaptec installed
Storage Manager
Note:
For more information about using Adaptec Storage Manager to create and manage
external RAID storage, such as an IPSAN, refer to the Adaptec Web site at www.adaptec.com.