Software Support
Contents
1 Overview.....................................................................................................................................15
What Is New In This Release?................................................................................................................................15
Before Installing Storage Management................................................................................................................. 15
Version Requirements For Controller Firmware And Drivers...........................................................................15
Supported Controllers...................................................................................................................................... 16
Supported Enclosures......................................................................................................................................16
Support For Disk And Volume Management....................................................................................................17
2 Getting Started...........................................................................................................................19
Launching Storage Management........................................................................................................................... 19
On Systems Running Microsoft Windows........................................................................................................19
On A System Running Linux And Any Remote System.....................................................................................19
User Privileges........................................................................................................................................................20
Using The Graphical User Interface....................................................................................................................... 20
Storage Object................................................................................................................................................. 20
Health............................................................................................................................................................... 20
Information/Configuration................................................................................................................................ 20
Using The Storage Management Command-Line Interface...................................................................................20
Displaying The Online Help.....................................................................................................................................20
Common Storage Tasks..........................................................................................................................................21
3 Understanding RAID Concepts............................................................................................... 23
What Is RAID?.........................................................................................................................................................23
Hardware And Software RAID......................................................................................................................... 23
RAID Concepts................................................................................................................................................. 23
RAID Levels...................................................................................................................................................... 24
Organizing Data Storage For Availability And Performance.................................................................................. 24
Choosing RAID Levels And Concatenation.............................................................................................................25
Concatenation.................................................................................................................................................. 25
RAID Level 0 (Striping)......................................................................................................................................26
RAID Level 1 (Mirroring)...................................................................................................................................27
RAID Level 5 (Striping With Distributed Parity)................................................................................................27
RAID Level 6 (Striping With Additional Distributed Parity)...............................................................................28
RAID Level 50 (Striping Over RAID 5 Sets)....................................................................................................... 29
RAID Level 60 (Striping Over RAID 6 Sets)....................................................................................................... 30
RAID Level 10 (Striped-Mirrors)....................................................................................................................... 31
RAID Level 1-Concatenated (Concatenated Mirror)........................................................................................32
Comparing RAID Level And Concatenation Performance......................................................................................33