Areca ARC-1200 - 6. Web Browser-based Configuration; 6.1 Start-up McRAID Storage Manager

WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION
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6. Web Browser-based Conguration
Before using the rmware-based browser McRAID storage manager
utility, do the initial setup and installation of this product. If you need
to boot up the operating system from a RAID volume set, you must
rst create a RAID volume by using McBIOS RAID manager. Please
refer to section 3.3 Using Quick Volume /Raid Setup Conguration for
information on creating this initial volume set.
The McRAID storage manager is rmware-based utility, which is acces-
sible via the web browser installed on your operating system.The web
browser-based McRAID storage manager is a HTML-based application,
which utilizes the browser (IE, Netscape and Mozilla etc) installed on
your monitor station.
It can be accessed through the In-Band PCIe bus. The In-Band method
via Archttp proxy server to launch the web browser-based McRAID
storage manager.
• Create RAID set,
• Expand RAID set,
• Dene volume set,
• Add physical drive ,
• Modify volume set,
• Modify RAID level/stripe size,
• Dene pass-through disk drives,
• Modify system function and
• Update rmware.
6.1 Start-up McRAID Storage Manager
With the McRAID storage manager, you are able to locally man-
age a system containing a SATA RAID controller that has Windows ,
Linux or more and a supported browser. A locally managed system
requires all of the following components:
• A supported web browser, which should already be installed on
the system.
• Install ArcHttp proxy server on the SATA RAID system. (Refer to
Chapter 5, Archttp Proxy Server Installation)
• Remote and managed systems must have a TCP/IP connection.