About This Guide; What You Need To Know Before You Begin; Terminology Used In This Guide - Adaptec CDP-00278-01-A User Manual

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About this Guide

Adaptec maxView Storage Manager™ is a browser-based software application that helps you build a
storage space using Adaptec RAID controllers, disk drives, and enclosures, and then manage your stored
data, whether you have a single RAID controller installed in a server or multiple RAID controllers, servers,
and enclosures.
This guide describes how to install and use Adaptec maxView Storage Manager (called simply maxView
Storage Manager in the remainder of this guide) to build and manage 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 the figures below:
Server with Adaptec RAID
controller and disk drives
Server with Adaptec RAID
controller and disk drives

What You Need to Know Before You Begin

This guide is written for data storage and IT professionals who want to create a storage space for their
online data. You should be familiar with computer hardware, operating system administration, and
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) technology.
If you are using maxView Storage Manager as part of a complex storage system, with multiple servers,
enclosures and RAID controllers, you should be familiar with network administration, have knowledge
of Local Area Networks (knowledge of storage area networks (SANs) is not required), and be familiar
with the input/output (I/O) technology of the storage devices on your network, such as Serial ATA (SATA)
or Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).
Note: Because this guide covers multiple Adaptec RAID products, some of the features
and functions described may not be available for your controller or enclosure.

Terminology Used in this Guide

Because this guide provides information that can be used to manage multiple Adaptec RAID products
in a variety of configurations, the generic term "storage space" is used to refer to the controller(s), disk
drives, and systems being managed with maxView Storage Manager.
For efficiency, the term "component" or "components" is used when referring generically to the physical
and virtual parts of your storage space, such as systems, disk drives, controllers, and logical drives.
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System running maxView
Storage Manager
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System running maxView
Server with Adaptec RAID controller
Storage Manager
running maxView Storage Manager
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Storage enclosures with
disk drives installed
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