Dot Hill Systems II 200 FC Manuale Utente

Configuring a Microsoft Windows Server

This appendix provides platform-specific host installation and configuration 
information to use when you connect a FC, SATA, or SATA SE array to a host running 
the Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2003 Server, or 
Windows 2003 Advanced Server operating system. For convenience, these platforms 
will be referred to collectively in this document as “Windows Windows Server.”

The information in this appendix covers the following steps:

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Setting Up the Serial Port Connection

The RAID controller can be configured by means of a host system running a VT100 
terminal emulation program such as HyperTerminal in Microsoft Windows. 

You can also monitor and configure a RAID array over an IP network using the 

RAID firmware or SANscape software after you assign an IP address to the array. For 
details, see “Setting Up Out-of-Band Management Over Ethernet” on page 4-28, and 
refer to the SANscape User’s Guide. 

1. Use a null modem serial cable to connect the COM port of the RAID array to an 

unused serial port on your host system. 
A null modem cable has serial signals swapped for connecting to a standard serial 
interface.