Users Guide

Storage Management Service 139
The Storage Management Service provides advanced features for configuring
a system's locally attached RAID and non-RAID disk storage. Storage
Management enables you to perform controller and enclosure functions for
all supported RAID and non-RAID controllers and PowerVault™ 2xxS and
PowerVault MD1000 enclosures from the Server Administrator graphical
interface without requiring use of the controller BIOS utilities.
Using the Storage Management Service, you can protect your data by
configuring data-redundancy, assigning hot spares, or rebuilding failed drives.
You can also perform data-destructive tasks such as deleting virtual disks or
resetting the controller configuration. All users of the Storage Management
Service should be familiar with their storage environment and storage
management.
In addition to the Server Administrator interface features, the Storage
Management Service provides wizard-driven features for novice and advanced
users and detailed online help.
The Storage Management 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 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 "Storage Management
Service."
Storage Management Service and Array Manager
The Dell OpenManage Storage Management is a replacement for Array
Manager. The Storage Management Service provides similar storage
management and configuration features as Array Manager. There are
differences in the operating system support and other features. Do read the
details on "Migrating from Array Manager to the Storage Management" and see
the Storage Management User’s Guide for more details.