User manual

SuperTrak TX Series User Manual
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Product Overview
SuperTrak TX8650 and TX8658 are SAS and SATA RAID Controller cards.
When used with WebPAM PRO software, the SuperTrak RAID Controllers offer a
feature-rich, secure and versatile enterprise-wide RAID solution. The resulting
RAID environment allows users and administrators to configure, manage, and
monitor everything from single logical drives on local systems to logical drive
networks residing in offsite locations.
The SuperTrak TX Series RAID Controller cards support SAS hard drives as well
as 1.5 Gb/s and 3.0 Gb/s SATA hard drives. At its core, both SuperTrak card
provides advanced RAID management functions: creating logical drives,
monitoring them, keeping them online and operating at optimum efficiency.
SuperTrak can also perform many other tasks, such as:
• The SuperTrak TX8650 and TX8658 Controller cards support up to 8 SAS or
SATA physical drives and RAID levels 0, 1, and 10. With a SAS expander
you can attach up to 108 additional drives, for a total of 116 drives.
• Set up a network of SuperTrak RAID servers (all running under different
RAID levels) and monitor those servers from any workstation on the
network.
• Create a series of SuperTrak RAID networks at any number of offsite
locations.
• Monitor and repair SuperTrak RAID logical drives using the Internet from an
offsite location—all without compromising the integrity of secure servers.
Hot-Swapping
Attached drives can be hot swapped when necessary.
WebPAM PRO Management Software
The Web-Based Promise Array Management—Professional (WebPAM PRO)
software offers local and remote management and monitoring of all SuperTrak
logical drives that exist anywhere on a network. Browser-based GUI provides
email notification of all major events or alarms, memory cache management,
drive event logging, logical drive maintenance, rebuild, and access to all
components in the RAID configuration (controller, disk arrays, logical drives,
physical drives, and enclosure).
For information on using WebPAM PRO, see “Chapter 5: Management with
WebPAM PRO” on page 83.