HP NetRAID-4M Installation Guide

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Introduction

locally manage an HP NetRAID-4M on systems running the

Microsoft

Windows NT

/Windows 2000

operating system.

It can also be used to remotely manage — from Windows

NT/Windows 2000 — Hewlett-Packard NetRAID-4M family

of products that are installed on another system running

Windows NT/Windows 2000 or NetWare. For more

information on FAST, see the Flexible Array Storage Tool User’s

Guide.

■ Command Line Interface (CLI)— CLI lets you perform most

of the tasks that you can perform with the FAST utility and, in

addition, lets you perform some tasks not available in FAST.

CLI allows you to use CLI commands in command scripts. For

more information on CLI, see the Command Line Interface

Reference Guide.

■ BIOS Utilities— The built-in HP NetRAID-4M BIOS includes

the following utilities that allow you to configure and manage

your controller and attached storage devices:

– Container Configuration Utility (CCU)— Allows you to

create and manage containers.

– SCSISelect Utility (SSU)—Allows you to configure your

SCSI channel and devices.

– Disk Utilities (DU)—Allows you to format and verify your

attached storage devices.

HP NetRAID-4M Tools and Capabilities

The following table lists the capabilities of the BIOS, CLI, and

graphical user interface (GUI).

Tools and Capabilities BIOS CLI GUI

Create a raw (empty) disk Yes No

Yes

Create basic disk No Yes Yes

Create dynamic disk No Not applicable No

Write disk signatures No Yes No

Write partition tables No Yes No

Assign drive letters No Yes No

Display drive letters No Yes Yes