User Manual

Introduction

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• Online array recovery for logical disks, disk groups, and volumes

• Storage Presentation

• Support multiple storage presentations: simple, symmetric, and selective

• Support dynamic LUN masking

• Independently-selectable access control for each host and LUN

• Independently-selectable CHS geometry and sector size for each LUN

• Support host grouping management

• Support up to 32 hosts, 16 host groups, and 32 storage groups

• Support up 1024 LUNs and 128 LUNs per storage group

• Hard Disk Management

• Support hard disk adding and removal emulation utility

• Support disk self test (DST) and disk health monitoring by SMART

• Support SMART warning-triggered disk cloning

• Support bad block over-threshold triggered disk cloning

• Support disk cache control

• Support disk auto standby when idle

• Support disk and disk group visual identification by LED

• Support disk sequential power-on

• Extensive disk I/O parameters selective for different environments

• Expansion Port Functions (model-dependent)

• Support SAS JBOD expansion units

• Support SAS SMP and SAS STP protocols

• Support external enclosure monitoring by SES

• Selective external enclosure and disk polling period

• Host Interface Functions (model-dependent)

• Support 4Gb/s Fibre Channel host interfaces (FC-SAS/SATA controller)

• Support 3Gb SAS host interfaces (SAS-SAS controller)

• Support Ultra320 SCSI host interfaces (SCSI-SATA controller)

• Support Gigabit iSCSI host interface

• Support T11 SM-HBA attributes statistics

• Support multiple-path IO (MPIO) solutions