Users Guide

Storage Management Service 103
Storage Management Service
Overview
The Storage Management Service provides storage management information in an integrated
graphical view. The current release of Server Administrator provides two versions of the
Storage Management Service:
• Basic Storage Management Service (Array Manager)
The basic Storage Management Service reports storage status to Server Administrator. Array
Manager is also installed with the basic Storage Management Service. Array Manager provides
RAID management and is launched as a separate application from Server Administrator.
The basic Storage Management Service of Server Administrator:
• Enables you to view the status of local and remote storage attached to a monitored system.
• Supports SATA, and ATA.
• Provides RAID storage management and Fibre Channel support using Array Manager as a
separately launched application.
NOTE: Array Manager is not available if no previous Dell OpenManage™ systems management software
(with Array Manager installed) is detected. It is only available for upgrade. Support for Array Manager will be
discontinued in a future release. It is recommended that you switch to use Storage Management Service
where applicable.
• Enhanced Storage Management Service (Storage Management Service)
The enhanced Storage Management Service provides RAID storage management that is
integrated with Server Administrator. On Microsoft
®
Windows
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and Red Hat
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Enterprise Linux,
the enhanced Storage Management Service is installed using Express Setup providing that the
system does not have an existing Array Manager installation.
In addition to the tasks that you can perform using the basic Storage Management Service, the
enhanced Storage Management Service:
• Allows you to perform controller and enclosure functions for all supported RAID and
non-RAID controllers and enclosures from a single graphical or command line interface
without the use of the controller BIOS utilities.
• Supports SCSI, SATA, ATA and SAS; however; Fibre Channel is not supported.
• Protects your data by configuring data redundancy, assigning hot spares, or rebuilding
failed drives.