Managing Your Storage Space; Deploying Servers; Creating A Server Template File; Duplicating The Server Template - Adaptec CDP-00278-02-A User Manual

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Managing Your Storage Space

This section describes the advanced features in maxView Storage Manager that help you manage your
storage space. You can:
• Deploy servers with a server template file
• Manage remote systems and auto-discovery tasks with the Remote System wizard
• Clear a controller configuration
• Use a custom base port for the maxView Storage Manager Agent

Deploying Servers

maxView Storage Manager helps you deploy servers in your storage space without configuring each
server manually. You can select an optimally configured server in your storage space, save the controller
configuration to a sever template file, then duplicate the configuration on servers throughout your
network.
The basic procedure works like this:
1. Choose the system you want to use as the model for other servers in your storage space.
2. Save the configuration to a server template file for each controller on that system.
3. Log in to each remote system in your storage space and restore the controller(s) from the server
template file(s).
The following sections provide details on each of these steps.

Creating a Server Template File

This procedure saves the configuration of a controller that you want to use as a model for other servers
in your storage space. It creates a server template file in XML format, which defines the controller type,
operational settings, physical drive size, logical drive size, RAID level, and more. The default name of
the server template file is ControllerConf.xml.
To create a server template file:
1. In the Enterprise View, select a system, then select a controller on that system.
2. On the ribbon, in the Controller group, click Save Configuration.
The Save Configuration window opens.
3. Click Save to continue.
4. When the File Download window opens, click Save, enter a name for the server template file or
accept the default name, then click Save again.
5. When the download is complete, click Close.
6. Continue with
on multiple systems in your storage space.

Duplicating the Server Template

When you are ready to duplicate the server template on other systems in your storage space, you can
restore the controller(s) on those systems from the server template file.
Keep in mind that:
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