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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 The GUI in storage enclosures displays the Dell System Express Service Code along with the Dell System Service Tag.
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 The new Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H200 driver and firmware supports 3 TB NL SAS hard drives, 3 TB NL SATA hard drives, and SAS SSDs.
l Added support for the following operating systems:
¡ Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 SP1
¡ Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011
¡ VMware ESX 4.1 Update 1
¡ VMware ESXi 4.1 Update 1
¡ VMware ESX 4.0 Update 3
¡ Vmware ESXi 4.0 Update 3
¡ Citrix Xen Server 5.6 FP1
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.