Users Guide

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In addition to the Server Administrator interface features, the enhanced Storage Management Service
provides wizard-driven features for novice and advanced users and detailed online help.
The enhanced Storage Management Service command line interface (CLI) provides extended options
for the Server Administrator omreport and omconfig commands. These options provide a command line
interface that is fully featured and scriptable.
The enhanced Storage Management Service supports SCSI, SATA, ATA and SAS; however, Fibre
Channel is not supported.
This release of Storage Management does not support Windows volume and disk management.
For additional information, see "Enhanced Storage Management Service."
Enhanced Storage Management Service and Array Manager
The enhanced Storage Management Service is a replacement for Array Manager. The enhanced Storage
Management Service provides similar storage management and configuration features as Array Manager.
There are differences in the operating system support and other features, however. See "Enhanced
Storage Management Service" for more information.
Enhanced Storage Management Tree Objects
When installed, the enhanced Storage Management Service is accessible by selecting the Storage tree
object on the Server Administrator GUI. The Storage object expands to display tree objects for the
supported controllers attached to the system. The controller object expands to display the storage
attached to the controller.
Depending on the controllers and storage attached to the system, the expanded Storage object may
display the following lower-level objects:
• Controller
• Battery
• Connector
• Enclosure or Backplane
•Array Disks
• EMMs (Enclosure Management Modules)
•Fans
• Power Supplies
•Temperatures
• Firmware/Driver Versions
• Virtual Disks