User`s guide

About This Guide
Adaptec
®
Storage Manager ™ is a software application that helps you build a storage space using
Adaptec by PMC
™
RAID controllers, disk drives, and enclosures, and then manage your stored
data, whether you have a single RAID controller installed in a server or a complex Storage Area
Network (SAN) with multiple RAID controllers, servers, and enclosures.
This User’s Guide describes how to install and use Adaptec Storage Manager to build and
manage Adaptec direct attached storage—a RAID controller and disk drives which reside
inside, or are directly attached to, the computer accessing them, similar to the basic
configurations shown in these figures:
Server with Adaptec by
PMC RAID controller and
disk drives
System running
Adaptec Storage Manager
System running
Adaptec Storage Manager
Server with Adaptec
by PMC RAID
controller and
disk drives
Server with Adaptec by
PMC RAID controller,
running Adaptec Storage
Manager
Storage enclosures
with disk drives
installed
Network (SAN)
Connection