User's Guide

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Contents
Overview ....................................................................................................................... 9
What is Universal RAID Utility? ...................................................................................................... 9
Structure of Universal RAID Utility
............................................................................................... 10
Functional differences from previous version of Universal RAID Utility
............................................ 11
Ver2.4 and Ver2.5 .................................................................................................................................... 11
System requirements ................................................................................................. 13
Hardware .................................................................................................................................. 13
Computers ............................................................................................................................................... 13
RAID Systems to be managed by Universal RAID Utility
.............................................................................. 13
Software (Windows) ................................................................................................................... 13
Operating systems ................................................................................................................................... 13
Microsoft .NET Framework
........................................................................................................................ 13
Runtime component of Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 library
.................................................................... 14
Software (Linux) ........................................................................................................................ 14
Operating systems ................................................................................................................................... 14
Software (VMware ESX) .............................................................................................................. 14
VMware ESX ............................................................................................................................................ 14
Others ...................................................................................................................................... 15
Resources ................................................................................................................................................ 15
TCP ports used by Universal RAID Utility
................................................................................................... 15
Safe Mode and Single User Mode
.............................................................................................................. 15
Setup of Universal RAID Utility .................................................................................. 16
Installation image ...................................................................................................................... 16
Installation and Uninstallation
..................................................................................................... 17
Preparing installation (Windows) ............................................................................................................... 18
Installation (Windows)
.............................................................................................................................. 19
Uninstallation (Windows)
.......................................................................................................................... 21
Preparing installation (Linux)
.................................................................................................................... 22
Installation (Linux, VMware ESX)
............................................................................................................... 23
Uninstallation (Linux, VMware ESX)
........................................................................................................... 24
Installation of NEC ESMPRO Manager
........................................................................................................ 24
Change of Universal RAID Utility Configuration ............................................................................. 25
Starting or Stopping Universal RAID Utility ............................................................... 26
raidsrv service ........................................................................................................................... 26
Starting Universal RAID Utility in Single User Mode .................................................................................... 26
raidsrv Agent Service ................................................................................................................. 26
RAID Viewer
.............................................................................................................................. 27
Log Viewer
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raidcmd
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Standard and Advanced Modes
................................................................................................... 30
RAID System Management Mode when startup RAID Viewer and raidcmd ................................................... 31
Changing RAID System Management Mode
............................................................................................... 31
Functions of RAID Viewer .......................................................................................... 32
Structure of RAID Viewer ............................................................................................................ 32
Tree View
.................................................................................................................................. 32
Server ..................................................................................................................................................... 33