User Manual

Appendix
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Appendix B: Features and Benefits
B.1 Overview
With the comprehensive features and utilities of the firmware, the system
administrators can easily build solutions that meet business requirements as
well as conduct management tasks effortlessly. The firmware offers not only
performance and reliability but also capabilities to effectively maximize
storage resources. It is a well-balanced mix of powerful functionalities and
user-friendly management interfaces. The firmware is designed with the
following twelve key features:
• Flexible storage presentation
• Flexible storage provisioning
• Comprehensive RAID configurations
• Dynamic configuration migration
• Effective capacity management
• Adaptive performance optimization
• Proactive data protection
• Fortified reliability and robustness
• Vigilant system monitoring
• Convenient task management
• Extensive supportive tools
• Easy-to-use user interfaces
B.2 Flexible Storage Presentation
Storage presentation refers to the process to export internal storage
resources to be used by the host computers. As a storage system may be
deployed in different environments or even shared by different types of host
computers at the same time, the RAID controller firmware offers flexible
storage presentation to accommodate these different requirements in
order to accomplish effective storage sharing and minimize the
management efforts.
• Flexible storage presentation
To simplify the storage presentation for different environments, the firmware
provides the following presentation methods:
Simple presentation for direct attached storage (DAS) environment
Symmetric presentation for host computers with multiple IO path (MPIO)
software