Overview; Megaraid Storage Manager - NEC Express5800 series User Manual

1. Overview

1.1 MegaRAID Storage Manager™

MegaRAID Storage Manager™ (hereafter abbreviated for MSM) is an application that locally or
remotely monitors and manages the MegaRAID Storage Systems(SAS/SATA).
MegaRAID Storage Systems(SAS/SATA) are following systems.
• LSI Logic Embedded MegaRAID(tm)
• N8103-90 Disk Array Controller(External SAS HDD)
• N8103-91 Disk Array Controller(Internal SAS HDD)
• N8103-99 Disk Array Controller(0ch)
• N8403-019 Disk Array Controller
• LSI Logic MegaRAID(tm) SAS PCI EXPRESS(tm) ROMB
MSM has the following features:
Flexible system management
MSM provides a system using MSM with N-to-1 management. In the environment
enabling communication through TCP/IP, more than one system can be managed at a time
by remote management.
Feature of creating or deleting the following arrays (packs) on the graphical operation
screen
MSM allows the following arrays to be created:
RAID 0 (data striping with more than one hard disk drive)
RAID 1 (data mirroring with two hard disk drives)
RAID 5 (Data and parity striping with more than two hard disk drives)
RAID 1 spanning (Same as RAID10. Data mirroring and striping with more than three
hard disk drives)
RAID5 spanning (Same as RAID50. Data striping including parity and striping with
more than five hard disk drives)
IMPORTANT:
Support RAID Levels depends on MegaRAID Storage
Systems(SAS/SATA). Please check Section "4.1 Supported
function of MegaRAID Systems".
Check consistency feature for checking array consistency
MSM supports the check consistency feature for checking consistency. MSM also supports
the feature of recovering data automatically if the check consistency feature detects
inconsistency.
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