Technical data
6 Supported Controller-Drive Trays
Checking the
Current Version of
the Storage
Management
Software
To check the level of the current storage management software, type the command
that corresponds to your operating system, and press Enter. The <package name>
placeholder refers to the name of the software package that is installed.
In the HP-UX operating system, type the command swlist | grep SM*,
and press Enter:
In the Solaris operating system, type the command pkginfo -l <package
name>, and press Enter:
In the Linux operating system, type the command rpm -qi <package
name>, and press Enter:
In the Windows operating system, perform these tasks.
a. Select Start >> Run.
b. Type reged32, and press Enter.
The Register Editor window appears.
c. Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >> SOFTWARE >> STORAGE.
The host software versions are listed under the storage directory.
Supported
Controller-Drive
Trays
A controller-drive tray is a unit that contains drives, redundant cooling fans and power
supplies, and (depending on the model) one or two controllers. Controller-drive trays
do not contain ESMs.
Table 4 shows the controller-drive trays and the maximum number of drive slots and
the total number of volumes that are supported by each controller-drive tray. The total
numbers include drive slots and volumes that are contained in the controller-drive tray
and in additional attached drive trays.
A host station acting as a
storage management station
(out-of-band management)
3
XXX X
Host with in-band
management
XXXXX
1
The RDAC/MPP failover driver is proprietary to NetApp and is available for download to the Linux OS.
2
The storage management station is a computer that runs storage management software that adds,
monitors, and manages the storage arrays on a network.
3
Out-of-band management is a method to manage a storage array over the network through an Ethernet
connection, from a storage management station that need not have an I/O path connection to the controllers.
Installation Option SMruntime SMclient SMutil SMagent
RDAC
Failover
Driver
1