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9 Managing Your Storage Space

Once you have installed your 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

Adaptec RAID controller.

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 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.

Installing maxView Storage Manager

For details about installing maxView Storage Manager on different operating systems, refer to the

maxView Storage Manager User’s Guide.

About the Adaptec RAID Controller Conguration Utility

The 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 Adaptec RAID Controller Command

Line Utility User's Guide.

About the Adaptec RAID Conguration Utility

The 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.

The ARC utility is included in your controller's BIOS. For more information, see Using the Adaptec RAID

Conguration Utility on page 83.

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