90 Intel
®
RAID Software User’s Guide
Maintenance Functions
Use the Intel
®
RAID Web Console 2 to perform system maintenance tasks such as running
patrol read operations, updating firmware, and running consistency checks on arrays and disk
groups that support redundancy.
Hardware and Software Requirements
The hardware requirements for Intel
®
RAID Web Console 2 software are as follows.
• PC-compatible computer system with at least one Intel
®
Xeon
®
architecture processor
or an Intel
®
Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel
®
EM64T) 64-bit processor
• At least 256 Mbytes of system memory
• Hard disk drive with at least 50 MB available free space
• A supported operating system:
— Microsoft Windows 2000*, Microsoft Windows Server 2003*, Microsoft Windows
Server 2008*, or Microsoft Windows XP*
— Red Hat* Linux Enterprise 3.0, 4.0, or 5.0 with or without corresponding service
packs
— SuSE* Enterprise Linux 9.0, 10.0, or 11.0 with or without corresponding service
packs
— VMWare* ESX 3i, 4i
Installing the Intel
®
RAID Web Console 2 on a Microsoft
Windows* Operating System
To install the Intel
®
RAID Web Console 2 on a Microsoft Windows 2000*, Microsoft
Windows Server 2003*, Microsoft Windows Server 2008*, or Microsoft Windows XP*
system, complete the following steps:
1. Insert the Resource CD in the CD-ROM drive.
OR
Download the Intel
®
RAID Web Console 2 installation package from
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/.
2. When the Welcome screen is displayed, click Next.
3. When the next screen is displayed, read and accept the user license and click Next.
The Customer Information screen is displayed, as shown in Figure 40.