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Serial Attached SCSI RAID Controllers Installation and User's Guide
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Managing Your Storage Space
Once you have installed your Adaptec RAID controller, disk drives (or other devices), and device driver,
you can begin to build and manage your storage space.
This chapter introduces maxView Storage Manager, and describes the other utilities included with your
Adaptec RAID controller.
About maxView Storage Manager
maxView Storage Manager is a browser-based software application that helps you build a storage space
for your online data, using Adaptec RAID controllers and disk drives.
With maxView Storage Manager, you can group disk drives into logical drives and build in redundancy
to protect your data and improve system performance.
From a single workstation, you can use maxView Storage Manager to monitor and manage all the
controllers and disk drives in your storage space.
When maxView Storage Manager is installed on a computer, the maxView Storage Manager Agent (and
other related services) is also installed automatically. The Agent is designed to run in the background,
without user intervention. Its job is to monitor system health, manage event notifications, task schedules,
and other on-going processes on a system. It sends notices when tasks are completed successfully, and
notifies you when errors or failures occur on that system.
If your storage space includes systems that won't be connected to monitors (and therefore won't require
the graphical user interface), you can choose to run the Agent only on those systems instead of the full
application. For more information, refer to the maxView Storage Manager User's Guide on the Adaptec
Installation DVD.
Installing maxView Storage Manager
maxView Storage Manager is included on the Adaptec Installation DVD. For installation instructions,
refer to the maxView Storage Manager User's Guide, in the books folder on the installation DVD.
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility
The Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration (ARCCONF) is a command line utility that you can use to
perform basic array and configuration management functions.
With ARCCONF, you can:
• Create and delete logical drives
• Modify and copy configuration settings
• Recover from disk drive failures and troubleshoot your system
ARCCONF is described in the Adaptec RAID Controller Command Line Utility User's Guide, which is
included on the Adaptec Installation DVD.
About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
The Adaptec RAID Configuration (ARC) utility is a BIOS-based utility that you can use to create and
manage controllers, disk drives and other devices, and arrays. The ARC utility comprises these tools:
• Logical Device Configuration—For creating and managing arrays, and initializing and rescanning disk
drives.
• Controller Settings—For modifying your controller and disk drive settings.
• Disk Utilities—For formatting or verifying disk drives.
The ARC utility is included in your controller's BIOS. For more information, see
Using the Adaptec RAID
Configuration Utility
on page 71.
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