User`s guide

Planning Your IP SAN Configuration and Setup
As you plan your IP SAN, use this table to understand which Adaptec Storage
Manager components can or must be installed on your IP SAN systems.
Note See page 211 for a complete list of supported Adaptec Storage Manager
features by OS. For additional help planning your IP SAN, see “Sample IP SAN
Configurations” on page 18.
Maximum Supported Connections
When building or expanding your IP SAN, ensure that you don’t exceed these
connection limitations for your iSCSI Storage Appliance. To each separate iSCSI
Storage Appliance, you can connect:
• Up to 100 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives
• Up to 52 SATA II disk drives
Note Re-initialize any previously used disk drive that was originally initialized by
another RAID controller before connecting it to your iSCSI Storage Appliance. Refer
to your operating system documentation for instructions.
Sample IP SAN Configurations
This section provides configuration examples that illustrate the storage
management options and Adaptec Storage Manager installation requirements for
each option.
Install... On... To...
Required GUI and Agent At least one system on
your IP SAN
Build, manage, and
monitor your IP SAN
Management Service At least one system on
the same subnet as your
iSCSI Storage Appliance
(Adaptec recommends it
be the same system as the
GUI and Agent)
Build, manage, and
monitor your IP SAN
Optional Windows Support
(see page 17)
All Windows 2003
systems on your IP SAN
that will be iSCSI Storage
Hosts.
Provision storage
automatically, create
volume snapshots, create
synchronous mirrors, use
Adaptec Storage Manager
with non-Adaptec storage
management tools