Feature Highlights; Enclosure Management - Asus PCI-DA2200 User Manual

ASUS GUI RAID Manager: Introduction
Provides password protection for guarding against
unauthorized modification of disk array configuration.
Provides Demo mode for use as a learning tool and for
demonstration
experimentation on various disk array configurations and
monitor the performance of the system under such
conditions. This Demo supports both the SCSI-to-SCSI
and PCI-to-SCSI controllers.
1.3

Feature Highlights

This section explains in detail the important features of the GUI
RAID Manager.
1.3.1 Graphical User Interface
The GUI RAID Manager's graphical interface is based on the
Windows specifications. It draws symbolic icons representing
physical and logical drives, and logical volumes on the screen to
identify the current configuration of a disk array system. Pull-
down and pop-up menus are used with all command options
listed. You just point and click the mouse button to select an
icon or command. The program also identifies the current status
of various drives by changing the colors of their respective icons.
With the Windows interface, complicated disk array operations
such as logical drive and logical volume creation, drive
partitioning, and drive partition mapping to host channels/LUNs
only involve a few mouse clicks.

1.3.2 Enclosure Management

The GUI RAID Manager provides a window dedicated to
enclosure management. Multiple customizable enclosures can
be defined within this window, including the number of drives
1-6
purposes. You can
1.3 Feature Highlights
perform