User's Manual

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Overview
Dell™OpenManage™ServerAdministratorStorageManagementUser'sGuide
What's New in this Release?
Supported Controllers
Supported Enclosures
Support for Disk and Volume Management
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Dell™OpenManage™ServerAdministratorStorageManagementprovidesenhanced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 enclosures
from a single graphical or command-line interface without requiring use of the controller BIOS utilities. The graphical interface is wizard-driven with features for
novice and advanced users. The command-line interface is fully-featured and scriptable. Using Storage Management, you can protect your data by configuring
data-redundancy, assigning hot spares, or rebuilding failed physical disks. You can also perform data-destructive tasks. All users of Storage Management
should be familiar with their storage environment and storage management.
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This release of Storage Management supports SATA and SAS but not SCSI and fibre channel.
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Storage Management does not display any information about operating systems that reside on the Secure Digital (SD)– or USB–drive.
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For more information, see the following:
l "Getting Started"
l "Understanding RAID Concepts"
l "Quick Access to Storage Status and Tasks"
l "Alert Messages"
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What's New in this Release?
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This release of Storage Management:
l Supports the VMware
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ESXi version 3.5 Update 4 hypervisor
l Supports the Server Administrator Web Server. For more information, see the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator User's Guide at the Dell Support
website at support.dell.com.
l Supports Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controllers only
l Does not provide SNMP trap support
l Support for the Solid State Drive (SSD) for PERC firmware version 6.1 and later.
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Supported Controllers
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This release of Storage Management supports the following controllers.
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The firmware and drivers listed in the Readme file refer to the minimum supported version for these controllers. Later versions of the firmware and drivers are
also supported. See the Dell Support website at support.dell.com for the most recent driver and firmware requirements.
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Supported RAID Controllers
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Storage Management supports the following RAID controllers. See "RAID Controller Technology: SAS" for information on which technology the supported RAID
controllers use.