Users Guide

Introduction 15
Storage Management Service
The Storage Management Service provides enhanced features for managing a system's locally-attached
RAID and non-RAID disk storage.
The Storage Management Service provides the following features:
• Enables you to view the status of local and remote storage attached to a monitored system
• Supports SAS, SCSI, SATA, and ATA, but does not support Fibre Channel
• Allows you to perform controller and enclosure functions for all supported RAID and non-RAID
controllers and enclosures from a single graphical interface or a CLI, without the use of the controller
BIOS utilities
• Protects your data by configuring data redundancy, assigning hot spares, or rebuilding failed drives
Diagnostics (Dell PowerEdge Service and Diagnostic Utilities CD)
The Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics is a suite of diagnostic programs, or test modules, that run locally on
your system. You can select the appropriate diagnostics tests to run from the Diagnostic Selection tree
containing the hardware that PowerEdge Diagnostics discovers on your system.
Drivers (Dell PowerEdge Service and Diagnostic Utilities CD)
The Extraction Utility enables you to view and create Dell software driver and diagnostic floppy disks.
Change Management (Dell PowerEdge Server Update Utility CD)
The Dell PowerEdge Server Update Utility CD includes the Server Update Utility (SUU). SUU is a
CD-based application for identifying and applying updates to your system. SUU is a dual-purpose
application and is easy to use. You can use SUU to update your PowerEdge server or to view the
updates available for any system listed in the Repository.
SUU facilitates change management by allowing you to update system components using an application
that compares the version of currently installed components with updated components packaged on a
CD and stored in a Repository. A full session of SUU would typically run an inventory of installed
components and their versions, provide a comparison report between what is installed currently on the
system and what the latest component versions are in the Repository, and leave to you the decision
whether to apply the Dell component System Update Set to update the system or not. You can
customize the packages you want to upgrade. You can roll back newer versions of components on your
system to the corresponding component version contained on the Dell PowerEdge Server Update Utility CD.
SUU is delivered on separate CDs for Microsoft Windows and Linux.