Areca ARC-1110 User Manual

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Before using the McRAID firmware-based browser utility, do the ini-

tial setup and installation of this product. If you need to boot up the 

operating system from a RAID volume set, you must first create a 

RAID volume by using McBIOS RAID Storage Manager. Please refer 

to section 3.3 Using Quick Volume /Raid Setup Configuration for 

information on creating this initial volume set.

The McRAID storage manager is firmware-based utility, which is ac-

cessible via the browser installed on your operating system.The Web 

Browser-based McRAID Storage Manager is a HTML-based application, 

which utilizes the browser (IE, Netscape and Mozilla etc) installed on 

your monitor station.  

 

It can be accessed through the In-Band PCI-X/PCIe bus or Out-of-Band 

ethernet port. The In-Band method via archttp proxy server to launch 

the Web Browser-based McRAID Storage Manager. The firmware-em-

bedded Web Browser-based McRAID storage manager allows local 

or remote to access it from any standard internet browser via a LAN 

or WAN with no software or patches required. The firmware contains 

SMTP manager monitors all system events and user can select either 

single or multiple user notifications to be sent via LAN with “Plain Eng-

lish” e-mails. The firmware-embedded SNMP agent allows remote to 

monitor events via LAN with no SNMP agent required.

• Create RAID set,

• Expand RAID set,

• Define volume set,

• Add physical drive ,

• Modify volume set,

• Modify RAID level/stripe size,

• Define pass-through disk drives,

• Modify system function,

• Update firmware, and

• Designate drives as hot spares. 

With the McRAID Storage Manager, you can locally manage a sys-

tem containing a SATA RAID controller that has Windows or Linux