User's Manual

Contents 3
Contents
1Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
What’s New in this Release? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Before Installing Storage Management
. . . . . . . . . 24
Version Requirements for Controller Firmware
and Drivers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Supported Controllers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Supported Enclosures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Support for Disk and Volume Management
. . . . . . . 26
2 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Launching Storage Management . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Microsoft Windows
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Linux and any Remote System
. . . . . . . . . . . 28
User Privileges
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Using the Graphical User Interface
. . . . . . . . . . . 29
Storage Object
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Health Subtab
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Information/Configuration Subtab
. . . . . . . . . 29
Drop-down Menus and Wizards for
Running Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using the Storage Management Command Line
Interface
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Displaying the Online Help
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30