DELL M8034-RF Manuale Utente

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Reprinted from Dell Power Solutions, February 2007. Copyright © 2007 Dell Inc. All rights reserved

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ell Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID Storage Manager

(RSM) software provides administrators with versatile

array configuration and management options, including

online capacity expansion, RAID level migration, and

random logical drive deletion without system shutdown.

A wide assortment of caching policies for logical drives,

variable stripe sizing, and adjustable task rates enable

administrators to quickly and easily modify their storage

arrays to meet enterprise requirements.

Dell SAS RSM is supported for the following operating

systems:

Microsoft

®

 Windows® 2000

32- and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows XP

32- and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows

Server

®

2003

Red Hat

®

 Enterprise Linux

®

 4 and 5

Novell

®

SUSE

®

Linux Enterprise Server 9 and 10

Dell SAS RSM is preinstalled as a stand-alone application on

Dell PowerEdge SC servers and Dell Precision workstations

that support the PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller

(PERC) 5/i and the SAS 5/iR adapter.

If administrators need to install or reinstall Dell SAS

RSM on a system running a Windows OS, they can locate 

the executable file on the Dell OpenManage™ Server

Assistant CD provided with  the system or download

the file from support.dell.com, then run it and complete

the installation wizard. Once the installation completes, 

administrators can launch the application by selecting 

Start>Programs>Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager.

To install Dell SAS RSM on systems running a Linux

OS, administrators should first copy the SSM_Linux_

Installer-versionnumber.tar.gz file to a temporary direc-

tory, then un-tar this file using the following command:

tar –zxvf SSM_Linux_Installer-versionnumber.tar.gz

This command creates a new disk directory. Admin-

istrators should go to this new disk directory and enter 

the  command

./install.sh

. In Red Hat Enterprise

Linux, they can then  launch  the application  by select-

ing Applications>System Tools>Dell SAS RAID Storage 

Dell

™

 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID Storage Manager is a stand-alone storage 

management application that enables administrators to configure, monitor, and 

manage storage configurations on SAS controllers, physical drives, and virtual disks. 

This article discusses the application’s key features for Dell PowerEdge

™

 SC servers 

and Dell Precision

™

 workstations.