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Protecting Your Data

In this chapter...

Creating a Snapshot...........................................................................96

Enabling Copyback............................................................................98

This chapter describes two additional methods of protecting the data on

your storage space, Snapshot and Copyback.

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Storage Manager 1
Copyright 2
Trademarks 2
Disclaimer 2
Adaptec Customer Support 3
Software License Agreement 4
Contents 7
Contents ● 8 8
Contents ● 9 9
10 Protecting Your Data 10
12 Managing Tasks 11
13 Managing Remote Systems 12
16 Solving Problems 12
A Configuring SNMP Support 13
D Understanding RAID 14
Glossary 14
About This Guide 15
Introduction to Adaptec 17
About Adaptec Storage Manager 18
System Requirements 19
Adding Enhanced Features 22
3 Click OK to confirm 23
Getting Started Checklist 24
Step 1: Installing Adaptec 25
Installing on Windows 26
Option Required Values 27
Adaptec Storage Manager\”” 28
SNMPSupport,ASMReadme” 28
Installing on Linux 29
JAVA -VERSION 30
Step 2: Starting Adaptec 31
LOAD RAIDMAN command 33
Starting the Agent on Windows 34
LOAD RaidAgnt 35
Administrator Level 36
User Level 37
Guest Level 37
Logging Back In 39
Step 3: Exploring Adaptec 40
Navigating the Main Window 41
Using Enterprise View 41
Using Physical Devices View 42
Using Logical Devices View 43
Full Size Capacity 45
View button 45
Relative Size Capacity 45
Checking System Status 46
Getting Help 47
Step 4: Building Your 48
Storage Space 48
Next Steps 52
4 Select a RAID level 53
5 Click Next 53
Tab for second logical drive 55
Building a RAID Volume 57
7 Click Next 58
RAID Controller Support 60
Managing Your Storage Space 60
Step 5: Customizing 61
Adaptec Storage Manager 61
Logging In to Remote Systems 62
Creating Display Groups 64
4 Click OK 66
3 Click Save changes 69
Running Adaptec Storage 71
Manager from the CD 71
Bootable-CD Mode Limitations 72
Managing Logical Drives 74
Available 75
Creating Logical Drives 76
Fine-tuning Logical Drives 79
Changing the Stripe Size 80
Verifying Logical Drives 82
4 Click Next 86
Deleting a Logical Drive 90
Working with Hot Spares 91
Hot spare 92
Removing a Hot Spare 94
Protecting Your Data 96
Creating a Snapshot 97
Deleting a Snapshot 98
Enabling Copyback 99
Monitoring Your Storage 100
Monitoring Options 101
Clearing the Event Log 103
Notifications Tab 105
Sending a Test Event 107
● To add a system to the 108
Disabling Event Notifications 112
1 Note this information: 113
Managing the Email List 116
● Address of your SMTP server 119
Disabling Email Notifications 120
Testing the Alarm 122
Viewing Component Properties 123
Managing Tasks 124
Scheduling a Task 125
2 Click Schedule 126
5 Click Apply 126
Opening the Task Manager 127
Monitoring Tasks 128
Modifying a Task 130
Deleting a Task 131
Disabling the Task Manager 132
Managing Remote 133
Introduction 134
Removing a Remote System 134
Working with Display 135
Viewing Display Group Status 137
Renaming a Display Group 138
Deleting a Display Group 139
Managing Controllers 140
Rescanning a Controller 141
Registering New Controllers 141
Viewing Controller Properties 142
Before You Begin 143
Managed systems 144
Solving Problems 147
...on Controller 1 148
...and logical drive is 149
Disk drive shows 149
Failed status 149
...hot spare takes over 149
Rebuilding Logical Drives 152
Solving Notification Problems 152
Creating an Archive File 153
Configuring SNMP 154
Quick Answers to 157
Common Questions 157
How do I...? 158
Schedule a task? 159
Find the Task Manager? 159
Buttons and Icons 161
At-a-Glance 161
Icon Descriptions 162
Icon Description 162
Button Click to... More on 163
Understanding RAID 164
Understanding Drive Segments 165
RAID 1 Logical Drives 166
RAID 10 Logical Drives 168
RAID 5 Logical Drives 169
RAID 5EE Logical Drives 170
RAID 50 Logical Drives 171
RAID 6 Logical Drives 172
RAID 60 Logical Drives 173
Selecting the Best RAID Level 174
Glossary ● 180 181
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