Growing Your Storage Space With Adaptec Storage Manager - Adaptec Storage Manager User Manual

Growing Your Storage Space with Adaptec Storage Manager

As your requirements change, Adaptec Storage Manager grows with your storage space as you
add more controllers, more disk drives, more logical drives, and more data protection.
A Simple Storage Space
This example shows a simple storage space that might be appropriate in a home office or for a
small business. This storage space includes one RAID controller and three disk drives installed
in a server. For data protection, the disk drives have been used to build a RAID 5 logical drive.
Business and
Customer Data
An Advanced Storage Space
This example shows how you can grow your storage space to meet the expanding requirements
of your business. On the first server, segments of space from each disk drive have been used to
build two RAID 5 logical drives. A second server connected to two 12-disk-drive enclosures
has been added. The additional storage space has been used to create two RAID 50 logical
drives. The Administrator of this storage space can create and modify logical drives and
monitor both controllers, disk drives, and enclosures from a single system, called the local
system (see page
Accounting and
Payroll Data
RAID 5
RAID 5
Server with RAID
controller and
disk drives
Chapter 1: Introduction to Adaptec Storage Manager
RAID 5
Server with RAID Controller
and Disk Drives
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System
Network (SAN) Connection
Server with RAID
controller, running
Adaptec Storage
Manager Agent
Local
System
System running
Adaptec Storage Manager
System running
Local
Adaptec Storage Manager
Storage enclosures with
disk drives installed
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Personnel Data
RAID
50
RAID
50
Customer Data