Logging in on the Local System .......................................................................................................36
Starting maxView Storage Manager on Remote Systems............................................................................36
Starting the Agent Only ..................................................................................................................36
Windows.............................................................................................................................37
Linux or VMware.................................................................................................................37
Solaris..................................................................................................................................37
Logging into Remote Systems from the Local System..................................................................................38
Creating Logical Drives.................................................................................................................................39
Express Configuration .....................................................................................................................39
Custom Configuration......................................................................................................................41
Partitioning and Formatting Your Logical Drives..............................................................................44
Creating Logical Drives on Other Systems in Your Storage Space....................................................44
6 Protecting Your Data.............................................................................................................................................45
Creating and Managing Hot Spares..............................................................................................................45
Hot Spare Limitations......................................................................................................................45
Dedicated Spare or Global Spare?...................................................................................................45
Designating a Global Hot Spare.......................................................................................................45
Assigning a Dedicated Hot Spare or Pool Hot Spare........................................................................46
Deleting a Global Hot Spare ............................................................................................................47
Removing or Deleting a Dedicated Hot Spare.................................................................................48
Enabling Copyback.......................................................................................................................................49
Enabling Automatic Failover........................................................................................................................50
7 Modifying Your Storage Space..............................................................................................................................52
Understanding Logical Drives.......................................................................................................................52
Creating and Modifying Logical Drives.........................................................................................................52
Including Different-sized Disk Drives in a Logical Drive...................................................................53
Creating a Logical Drive Using Available Segments.........................................................................54
Creating a Hybrid RAID Logical Drive ..............................................................................................54
Fine-tuning Logical Drives............................................................................................................................55
Renaming a Logical Drive.................................................................................................................55
Changing the Read Cache Setting....................................................................................................56
Changing the Write Cache Setting...................................................................................................56
Changing the Stripe Size .................................................................................................................57
Changing the Initialize Method .......................................................................................................57
Optimizing Logical Drive Performance.........................................................................................................57
Verifying Logical Drives................................................................................................................................58
Verifying and Fixing a Logical Drive.................................................................................................59
Enabling/Disabling Background Consistency Check........................................................................59
Increasing the Capacity of a Logical Drive....................................................................................................60
Changing the RAID Level of a Logical Drive..................................................................................................61
Erasing a Logical Drive..................................................................................................................................62
Deleting a Logical Drive................................................................................................................................62
Adding maxCache SSD Caching to Your Storage Space ...............................................................................62
Creating a maxCache Container.......................................................................................................63
Setting the maxCache Flush and Fetch Rate ...................................................................................64
Verifying and Fixing the maxCache Container.................................................................................64
Deleting the maxCache Container...................................................................................................65
Changing the maxCache Settings for a Logical Drive.......................................................................65
Changing the maxCache Settings for a Controller...........................................................................66
Using maxCache with Adaptec Series 6 Controllers........................................................................66
Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Storage Space............................................................................................67
Setting Power Management Options for a Logical Drive.................................................................68
Setting Power Management Options for a Controller.....................................................................69
Disabling Power Management for a Logical Drive...........................................................................70
8 Working with Scheduled Tasks..............................................................................................................................71
Scheduling a Task.........................................................................................................................................71
Monitoring Tasks .........................................................................................................................................72
What if a Task Misses its Start Time?...............................................................................................73
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maxView Storage Manager User's Guide
