Microsemi Adaptec ASR-8405E - Managing Your Storage Space; About maxView Storage Manager

10 Managing Your Storage Space
Once you have installed your Microsemi 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
Microsemi Adaptec RAID controller.
10.1 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 Microsemi 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 notications, task schedules,
and other on-going processes on a system. It sends notices when tasks are completed successfully, and
noties 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.
10.1.1 Installing maxView Storage Manager
For details about installing maxView Storage Manager on different operating systems, refer to the maxView
Storage Manager User’s Guide.
10.2 About the Microsemi Adaptec RAID Controller Conguration Utility
The Microsemi Adaptec RAID Controller Conguration (ARCCONF) is a command line utility that you can
use to perform basic array and conguration management functions.
With ARCCONF, you can:
• Create and delete logical drives
• Modify and copy conguration settings
• Recover from disk drive failures and troubleshoot your system
For information about installing and using ARCCONF, refer to the Microsemi Adaptec RAID Controller
Command Line Utility User's Guide.
10.3 About the Microsemi Adaptec RAID Conguration Utility
The Microsemi Adaptec RAID Conguration (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 Conguration—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.
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