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Storage Management Service 103
The Storage Management Service supports SCSI, SATA, ATA, and SAS; however, Fibre Channel is
not supported.
This release of Storage Management does not support Windows volume and disk management. For
additional information, see "Storage Management Service."
Storage Management Service and Array Manager
The Dell OpenManage Storage Management is a replacement for Array Manager. The Storage
Management Service provides similar storage management and configuration features as Array Manager.
There are differences in the operating system support and other features. Do read the details on
"Migrating from Array Manager to the Storage Management" and see the Storage Management User’s Guide
for more details.
Storage Management Tree Objects
When installed, the Storage Management Service is accessible by selecting the Storage tree object on the
Server Administrator graphical user interface. The Storage object expands to display tree objects for the
supported controllers attached to the system. The controller object expands to display the storage
attached to the controller.
Depending on the controllers and storage attached to the system, the expanded Storage object may
display the following lower-level objects:
Controller
Battery
Connector
Enclosure or Backplane
Physical Disks
EMMs (Enclosure Management Modules)
•Fans
Power Supplies
•Temperatures
Firmware/Driver Versions
Virtual Disks
Health Tab
The Health tab for each tree object displays status information for the selected object.