User's Manual

Overview

Server Administrator Storage Management provides enhanced features for configuring the locally

attached RAID and non-RAID disk storage on a system. Storage Management enables you to perform

controller and enclosure functions for all supported RAID and non-RAID controllers and enclosures from

a single graphical user interface (GUI) or command-line interface (CLI). The GUI is wizard-driven and

includes features for novice and advanced users. The CLI 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. 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 information on Storage Management alerts, see the Server Administrator Messages Reference Guide.

What Is New In This Release?

This release of Storage Management provides the following new features:

• Added support for the following operating systems:

– Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (64–bit)

– VMware vSphere 5.0 U3 and 5.5

– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5

– Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

* Foundation Edition

* Essential Edition

* Standard Edition

* Datacenter Edition

• Support for a new license format for Citrix XenServer 6.1

• Added support for web browsers:

– Mozilla Firefox version 22 and 23

– Internet Explorer version 8, 9, 10, and 11

– Google Chrome version 27, 28, 30, and 31

– Safari version 6.0

• Introduction of PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) 9 — PERC H730P Adapter

– Support For RAID Level 10 Virtual Disk Creation on PERC 9 Hardware Controller — Uneven Span

feature

– Support For Advanced Format 4K Sector Hard-Disk Drives

– T10 Standard Protection Information (PI) — Data Integrity Field

For more information, see Support For PERC 9 Hardware Controllers