User Guide

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AMD-RAIDXpert2 User Guide
Chapter 2
Getting Started
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2.3.2 Supported Operating Systems
RAIDXpert2 currently supports the following operating systems:
 Microsoft
®
Windows
®
7: Professional Edition, Ultimate Edition; 32 bit and 64 bit
 Microsoft Windows 10: 64 bit
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux
®
(RHEL) 7.2 64 bit
 Ubuntu Desktop Linux 15.04 32 bit and 64 bit
 Ubuntu Desktop Linux 15.10 32 bit and 64 bit
2.4 Features of RAIDXpert2
The features of RAIDXpert2 described in this user manual apply to all license levels and
supported operating systems.
Table 4 describes these features. Also see Table 5, on page 20, for a summary of features that are
available with each license level of RAIDXpert2: RAIDXpert2 Basic and RAIDXpert2 Plus.
Table 4. Features of RAIDXpert2
RAIDXpert2 Feature
Description
Arrays (general information)
RAIDXpert2 allows:
 Creating arrays of different RAID levels using the same disks.
 Creating different RAID level arrays on the same disk, to adapt each
array to the I/O that it processes.
 Creating an array from a mix of different type disks. For example, a
RAID10 array can be created from a group of disks that contain two
SATA II HDDs and two SATA SSDs.
 The ability to create RAID10 or RAIDABLE arrays may not be
available on your system.
 Migrating an existing array to another RAID level, if the type of array
being used is not the optimal type for the application. This function
depends on the array capacity, redundancy level and RAIDXpert2
license level.
 An array refers to data storage created by RAIDXpert2 from one or
more disks. Although an array can be created from several disks, it is
seen by the operating system as a single disk.
Array Hiding
An array can be hidden from the operating system so that neither the
software nor users can see or access it.