Adaptec 5325302057 User Manual page 20

Introduction to Adaptec Storage Manager for iSCSI Storage
You can use Adaptec Storage Manager to:
• Combine physical disk drives into virtual storage pools (pools) that are protected
with RAID, and increase the capacity or change the RAID level of existing pools.
• Protect and control access to your IP SAN and data.
• Monitor your IP SAN, using activity notifications and the event viewer in the
main window.
• Maintain your iSCSI Storage Appliances.
• Provision storage to the systems on your network automatically (supported on
some operating systems only) or manually.
• Create application-consistent snapshots of provisioned storage, for extra data
protection (supported on some operating systems only).
• Create synchronous mirrors of provisioned storage, for an extra layer of data
protection and increased data availability (supported on some operating systems
only).
Synchronous mirroring requires a minimum of two iSCSI Storage
Note
Appliances.
Adaptec Storage Manager provides wizards to guide you through many of these
tasks.
iSCSI Storage Feature Support
Support for Adaptec Storage Manager's iSCSI storage features varies by operating
system (OS)—depending on which OS is running on an individual system, either
the full set or a subset of Adaptec Storage Manager iSCSI storage features is
available on that system.
Additionally, the storage provisioning process may be automatic or manual for an
individual system depending on which OS is installed.
Systems running Windows 2003 to which you provision storage are referred to in
Adaptec Storage Manager as iSCSI Storage Hosts.
The table on page 15 lists the features available for a system running one of the
supported OSs.
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