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 Overview
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Storage Management User's Guide
What's New in this Release?
Before Installing Storage Management
Supported Controllers
Supported Enclosures
Support for Disk and Volume Management
Support for Encryption Key Management
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.
Storage Management supports SCSI, SATA, ATA, and SAS but not fibre channel.
For more information, see the following:
l Getting Started
l Understanding RAID Concepts
l Quick Access to Storage Status and Tasks
For information on Storage Management alerts, see the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Messages Reference Guide at support.dell.com/manuals.
What's New in this Release?
This release of Storage Management provides the following new features:
l With Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H700 and H800 cards, you can use Dell Key Management to encrypt storage drives. For the minimum
required firmware and driver versions, go to the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator and click Storage® Storage Controller® Firmware/Driver
Version.
l With Solid State Disks (SSDs), you can configure a CacheCade for your virtual disks. For more information, see CacheCade Using Solid State Drives.
l With the latest firmware, SATA drives with capacity of more than 2 TB are supported. For the minimum required firmware and driver versions, go to the
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator and click Storage® Storage Controller® Firmware/Driver Version.
l Added support for Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0 U2 operating systems.
For information on Alert Messages, see the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Messages Reference Guide and for information on Command Line Interface, see
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Command Line Interface User's Guide, at support.dell.com/manuals.
Before Installing Storage Management
The following sections describe considerations for installing Storage Management.
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PERC Console and FAST Compatibility Issues When Installing Storage Management
To maintain the integrity of storage device configuration, installing Storage Management on a system that has File and Storage Technologies (FAST) or the
PERC Console installed is an unsupported configuration. It is recommended that you uninstall FAST and the PERC Console before installing Storage
Management. In particular, you may find that Storage Management or the FAST features are disabled at run time when using Storage Management on a
system that also has FAST installed.
Storage Management replaces all Storage Management features provided by FAST and the PERC Console. In addition, Storage Management has features not
provided by FAST and the PERC Console.
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Compatibility With Linux Utilities
Installing Storage Management on system running a Linux operating system that has RAID Storage Management utilities provided by Dell or other vendors is
an unsupported configuration. It is recommended that you uninstall these utilities before installing Storage Management. Storage Management replaces the
Storage Management features provided by these utilities. Examples of the Dell or vendor-supplied Linux utilities include:
NOTE: The DKM and CacheCade features are available from first half of calendar year 2011.
NOTE: It is recommended that you uninstall FAST before installing Storage Management. Uninstalling FAST on a system that has both FAST and Storage
Management installed also uninstalls the Adaptec filter driver. In this situation, you must reinstall Storage Management to restore the Adaptec filter
driver. To prevent this, verify that FAST is uninstalled before installing Storage Management.