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maxView Storage
Manager User's Guide
CDP-00285-03-A Rev. A
Issue : February 07, 2014
maxView Storage Manager User's Guide
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Revision History
Issue
1.05
Issue Date
February 07,
2014
Details of Change
Adaptec maxView Storage Manager Version 1.05
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Contents
Adaptec by PMC Product Support............................................................................................................................10
Software License Agreement....................................................................................................................................12
1 About this Guide...................................................................................................................................................15
What You Need to Know Before You Begin..................................................................................................15
Terminology Used in this Guide...................................................................................................................15
How to Find More Information....................................................................................................................16
2 Introduction to maxView Storage Manager..........................................................................................................17
Getting Started.............................................................................................................................................17
About maxView Storage Manager ...............................................................................................................17
About the maxView Storage Manager Agent .................................................................................18
About the maxView Storage Manager Web Server.........................................................................18
About the maxView Storage Manager CIM Server..........................................................................18
System Requirements..................................................................................................................................19
Browser Support..........................................................................................................................................19
Typical Storage Space Configurations...........................................................................................................20
A Simple Storage Space...................................................................................................................20
An Advanced Storage Space............................................................................................................20
Continuing to Grow Your Storage Space..........................................................................................21
3 Installing maxView Storage Manager....................................................................................................................22
Before You Begin the Installation.................................................................................................................22
Gather Installation Information.......................................................................................................22
Download the Installation Packages................................................................................................22
Installing on Windows..................................................................................................................................23
Installing on Red Hat, Cent OS, SuSE, or Fedora Linux.................................................................................24
Installing on Debian or Ubuntu Linux...........................................................................................................25
Installing on Solaris......................................................................................................................................25
Installing on VMware ESX 4.1.......................................................................................................................25
Installing on VMware ESXi 5.x......................................................................................................................26
Installing on a VMware Guest OS.................................................................................................................27
Running maxView Storage Manager from a Bootable USB Image ..............................................................27
Uninstalling maxView Storage Manager......................................................................................................28
Uninstalling from Windows.............................................................................................................28
Uninstalling from Red Hat, Cent OS, SuSE, or Fedora Linux.............................................................28
Uninstalling from Debian or Ubuntu Linux......................................................................................29
Uninstalling from Solaris..................................................................................................................29
Uninstalling from VMware ESX 4.1..................................................................................................29
Uninstalling from VMware ESXi 5.x.................................................................................................29
4 Exploring maxView Storage Manager...................................................................................................................31
Starting maxView Storage Manager and Logging In ....................................................................................31
Working in maxView Storage Manager........................................................................................................31
Overview of the Main Window....................................................................................................................31
The Enterprise View ........................................................................................................................32
What do the Enterprise View Icons Mean? ......................................................................33
The Ribbon ......................................................................................................................................34
The Storage Dashboard...................................................................................................................34
Checking System Status from the Main Window.........................................................................................35
Revealing More Device Information ............................................................................................................36
Getting Help.................................................................................................................................................38
Logging Out of maxView Storage Manager..................................................................................................38
5 Building Your Storage Space.................................................................................................................................39
Overview......................................................................................................................................................39
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Choosing a Management System.................................................................................................................39
‘Local’ or ‘Remote’?.........................................................................................................................39
Logging in on the Local System .......................................................................................................40
Starting maxView Storage Manager on Remote Systems............................................................................40
Starting the Agent Only ..................................................................................................................40
Windows.............................................................................................................................41
Linux or VMware.................................................................................................................41
Solaris..................................................................................................................................42
Logging into Remote Systems from the Local System..................................................................................42
Creating Logical Drives.................................................................................................................................43
Express Configuration .....................................................................................................................43
Custom Configuration......................................................................................................................46
Partitioning and Formatting Your Logical Drives..............................................................................49
Creating Logical Drives on Other Systems in Your Storage Space....................................................49
6 Protecting Your Data.............................................................................................................................................50
Creating and Managing Hot Spares..............................................................................................................50
Hot Spare Limitations......................................................................................................................50
Global Spare or Dedicated Spare?...................................................................................................50
Designating a Global Hot Spare.......................................................................................................50
Assigning a Dedicated Hot Spare or Pool Hot Spare........................................................................51
Deleting a Global Hot Spare ............................................................................................................52
Removing or Deleting a Dedicated Hot Spare.................................................................................53
Enabling Copyback.......................................................................................................................................54
Enabling Automatic Failover........................................................................................................................55
7 Modifying Your Storage Space..............................................................................................................................57
Understanding Logical Drives.......................................................................................................................57
Creating and Modifying Logical Drives.........................................................................................................57
Including Different-sized Disk Drives in a Logical Drive...................................................................58
Creating a Logical Drive Using Available Segments.........................................................................59
Creating a Hybrid RAID Logical Drive ..............................................................................................59
Fine-tuning Logical Drives............................................................................................................................60
Renaming a Logical Drive.................................................................................................................60
Changing the Read Cache Setting....................................................................................................61
Changing the Write Cache Setting...................................................................................................61
Changing the Stripe Size .................................................................................................................62
Changing the Initialize Method .......................................................................................................62
Optimizing Logical Drive Performance.........................................................................................................62
Verifying Logical Drives................................................................................................................................63
Verifying and Fixing a Logical Drive.................................................................................................64
Enabling/Disabling Background Consistency Check........................................................................64
Increasing the Capacity of a Logical Drive....................................................................................................65
Changing the RAID Level of a Logical Drive..................................................................................................66
Erasing a Logical Drive..................................................................................................................................67
Deleting a Logical Drive................................................................................................................................67
Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Storage Space............................................................................................67
Setting Power Management Options for a Logical Drive.................................................................68
Setting Power Management Options for a Controller.....................................................................69
Disabling Power Management for a Logical Drive...........................................................................70
8 Optimizing the Structure of Your Storage Space...................................................................................................72
Adding Caching and Tiering to Your Storage Space......................................................................................72
About maxCache Plus .....................................................................................................................72
Tiers, Virtual Pools, and Virtual Volumes ........................................................................................73
maxCache vs. maxCache Plus .........................................................................................................74
Creating and Managing Virtual Pools...........................................................................................................75
Creating a Virtual Pool.....................................................................................................................75
Modifying a Virtual Pool .................................................................................................................76
Deleting a Virtual Pool.....................................................................................................................76
Creating and Managing Virtual Volumes......................................................................................................77
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