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Adaptec CDP-00278-01-A User Manual (130 pages)
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
4
Adaptec by PMC Product Support
8
Software License Agreement
9
1 About this Guide
12
What You Need to Know before You Begin
12
Terminology Used in this Guide
12
How to Find more Information
13
2 Introduction to Maxview Storage Manager
14
Getting Started
14
About Maxview Storage Manager
14
About the Maxview Storage Manager Agent
15
About the Maxview Storage Manager Web Server
15
About the Maxview Storage Manager CIM Server
15
System Requirements
16
Browser Support
16
Typical Storage Space Configurations
17
A Simple Storage Space
17
An Advanced Storage Space
17
Continuing to Grow Your Storage Space
18
3 Installing Maxview Storage Manager
19
Before You Begin the Installation
19
Installing on Windows
19
Installing on Red Hat, Cent OS, Suse, or Fedora Linux
20
Installing on Debian or Ubuntu Linux
21
Installing on Solaris
21
Installing on Vmware ESX 4.1
22
Installing on Vmware Esxi 5.0
23
Installing on a Vmware Guest os
24
Running Maxview Storage Manager from the DVD
24
Uninstalling Maxview Storage Manager
25
Uninstalling from Windows
25
Uninstalling from Red Hat, Cent OS, Suse, or Fedora Linux
25
Uninstalling from Debian or Ubuntu Linux
25
Uninstalling from Solaris
25
Uninstalling from Vmware ESX 4.1
26
Uninstalling from Vmware Esxi 5.0
26
4 Exploring Maxview Storage Manager
27
Starting Maxview Storage Manager and Logging in
27
Working in Maxview Storage Manager
27
Overview of the Main Window
27
The Enterprise View
28
What Do the Enterprise View Icons Mean
29
The Ribbon
30
The Storage Dashboard
30
Checking System Status from the Main Window
31
Revealing more Device Information
32
Getting Help
33
Logging out of Maxview Storage Manager
33
5 Building Your Storage Space
34
Overview
34
Choosing a Management System
34
Local' or 'Remote
34
Logging in on the Local System
35
Starting Maxview Storage Manager on Remote Systems
35
Starting the Agent Only
35
Windows
36
Linux or Vmware
36
Solaris
36
Logging into Remote Systems from the Local System
37
Creating Logical Drives
38
Express Configuration
38
Custom Configuration
40
Partitioning and Formatting Your Logical Drives
43
Creating Logical Drives on Other Systems in Your Storage Space
43
6 Protecting Your Data
44
Creating and Managing Hot Spares
44
Hot Spare Limitations
44
Dedicated Spare or Global Spare
44
Designating a Global Hot Spare
44
Assigning a Dedicated Hot Spare or Pool Hot Spare
45
Deleting a Global Hot Spare
46
Removing or Deleting a Dedicated Hot Spare
47
Enabling Copyback
48
Enabling Automatic Failover
49
7 Modifying Your Storage Space
51
Understanding Logical Drives
51
Creating and Modifying Logical Drives
51
Including Different-Sized Disk Drives in a Logical Drive
52
Creating a Logical Drive Using Available Segments
53
Creating a Hybrid RAID Logical Drive
53
Fine-Tuning Logical Drives
54
Renaming a Logical Drive
54
Changing the Read Cache Setting
55
Changing the Write Cache Setting
55
Changing the Stripe Size
56
Changing the Initialize Method
56
Optimizing Logical Drive Performance
56
Verifying Logical Drives
57
Verifying and Fixing a Logical Drive
58
Enabling/Disabling Background Consistency Check
58
Increasing the Capacity of a Logical Drive
59
Changing the RAID Level of a Logical Drive
60
Erasing a Logical Drive
61
Deleting a Logical Drive
61
Adding Maxcache SSD Caching to Your Storage Space
61
Creating a Maxcache Container
62
Setting the Maxcache Flush and Fetch Rate
63
Verifying and Fixing the Maxcache Container
63
Deleting the Maxcache Container
64
Changing the Maxcache Settings for a Logical Drive
64
Changing the Maxcache Settings for a Controller
65
Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Storage Space
65
Setting Power Management Options for a Logical Drive
66
Setting Power Management Options for a Controller
67
Disabling Power Management for a Logical Drive
68
8 Working with Scheduled Tasks
69
Scheduling a Task
69
Monitoring Tasks
70
What if a Task Misses Its Start Time
71
Modifying a Task
71
Deleting a Task
72
9 Maintaining Physical Devices
73
Viewing Device Properties
73
Locating Drives in Your Storage Space
73
Locating a Disk Drive
74
Locating Physical Disks in a Logical Drive
74
Locating Ssds in the Maxcache Container
75
Working with Failed or Failing Disk Drives
76
Replacing Disk Drives in a Logical Drive
76
Setting a Disk Drive to 'Failed
76
Initializing and Erasing Disk Drives
77
Initializing Disk Drives
77
Erasing Disk Drives
77
Verifying and Fixing a Disk Drive
78
Changing a Disk Drive's Write Cache Setting
78
Working with Controllers
79
Silencing a Controller Alarm
79
Disabling a Controller Alarm
79
Rescanning a Controller
80
Setting a Controller's Default Task Priority
80
Enabling Native Command Queuing on a Controller
80
Working with System Alarms
81
Updating Controller and Disk Drive Firmware
82
Before You Begin
82
Updating the Controller Firmware
82
Updating the Disk Drive Firmware
85
10 Monitoring Status and Activity
86
Monitoring Options
86
Checking Status from the Main Window
86
Viewing Activity Status in the Event Log
87
What Do the Event Status Icons Mean
87
Viewing Task Status in the Task Log
88
Viewing Component Status in the Storage Dashboard
88
Monitoring Enclosure Status
90
Viewing SMART Statistics
90
Viewing Storage Space Usage in Chart View
91
Notifying Users by Email about Status and Activity
91
Setting up Email Notifications
91
Sending a Test Message
94
Modifying Recipient Information or Removing a Recipient
95
Modifying Email Server Settings
96
Creating an Email Notification Template
96
Broadcasting Alerts about Status and Activity
97
Monitoring Advanced Statistics about Activity in Your Storage Space
97
Setting up Statistics Logging
97
Viewing Advanced Statistics
98
Resetting the Statistics Counters
99
Changing an Operating System's Event Log Setting
100
11 Managing Your Storage Space
101
Deploying Servers
101
Creating a Server Template File
101
Duplicating the Server Template
101
Managing Remote Systems
103
Adding Remote Systems with the Wizard
103
Manually Adding a Remote System
103
Removing a Remote System
104
Changing the Auto-Discovery Settings
105
Clearing the Controller Configuration
106
Changing the Agent Base Port Setting
107
12 Solving Problems
108
General Troubleshooting Tips
108
Identifying a Failed or Failing Component
108
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure
109
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare
109
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare
109
Failure in Multiple Logical Drives Simultaneously
109
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Logical Drive
110
Multiple Disk Drive Failures in the same Logical Drive
110
Rebuilding Logical Drives
111
Creating a Support Archive File
111
Appendix A Selecting the Best RAID Level
112
Comparing RAID Levels
113
Understanding Drive Segments
113
Non-Redundant Logical Drives (RAID 0)
114
RAID 1 Logical Drives
114
RAID 1 Enhanced Logical Drives
115
RAID 10 Logical Drives
116
RAID 5 Logical Drives
117
RAID 50 Logical Drive
118
RAID 6 Logical Drives
119
RAID 60 Logical Drives
119
Appendix B Icons At-A-Glance
120
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