User`s guide

Contents ● 7
3 Building Your Storage Space
Overview............................................................................................................ 27
Choosing a Management System ..................................................................... 27
Starting and Logging In on the Local System.................................................. 28
Starting Adaptec Storage Manager on Remote Systems ................................. 32
Logging into Remote Systems from the Local System .................................... 33
Creating Logical Drives..................................................................................... 35
Managing Your Storage Space.......................................................................... 42
Part II: Monitoring and Modifying Your Storage Space
4 Exploring Adaptec Storage Manager
Working in Adaptec Storage Manager............................................................. 45
Overview of the Main Window........................................................................ 45
Revealing More Device Information................................................................ 50
Checking System Status from the Main Window ........................................... 51
Getting Help ...................................................................................................... 51
Logging Out of Adaptec Storage Manager....................................................... 52
Uninstalling Adaptec Storage Manager ........................................................... 52
5 Protecting Your Data
Creating and Managing Hot Spares................................................................. 55
Enabling Copyback ........................................................................................... 58
6 Modifying Your Direct Attached Storage
Understanding Logical Drives.......................................................................... 60
Creating and Modifying Logical Drives........................................................... 61
Fine-tuning Logical Drives ............................................................................... 64
Optimizing Logical Drive Performance........................................................... 67
Verifying Logical Drives ................................................................................... 68
Increasing the Capacity of a Logical Drive ...................................................... 70
Changing the RAID Level of a Logical Drive................................................... 71
Deleting a Logical Drive.................................................................................... 72
Creating a RAID Volume ................................................................................. 72
Creating a JBOD Disk....................................................................................... 74
Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Storage Space.............................................. 76
Configuring the MaxIQ Cache......................................................................... 79
7 Scheduling Recurring or Resource-Intensive Jobs
Scheduling a Task.............................................................................................. 82
Opening the Task Manager .............................................................................. 83