About This Guide - Adaptec Storage Manager User Manual

About This Guide

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Adaptec Storage Manager is a software application that helps you build a storage space using
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Adaptec by PMC 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) with multiple RAID controllers, servers, and enclosures.
This User's Guide describes how to install and use Adaptec Storage Manager to build and
manage Adaptec direct attached 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 Adaptec by System running
PMC RAID controller and Adaptec Storage Manager
disk drives
Network (SAN)
Connection
Server with Adaptec System running Server with Adaptec by Storage enclosures
by PMC RAID Adaptec Storage Manager PMC RAID controller, with disk drives
controller and running Adaptec Storage installed
disk drives Manager