Choosing a Management System.................................................................................................................39
‘Local’ or ‘Remote’?.........................................................................................................................39
Logging in on the Local System .......................................................................................................40
Starting maxView Storage Manager on Remote Systems............................................................................40
Starting the Agent Only ..................................................................................................................40
Windows.............................................................................................................................41
Linux or VMware.................................................................................................................41
Solaris..................................................................................................................................42
Logging into Remote Systems from the Local System..................................................................................42
Creating Logical Drives.................................................................................................................................43
Express Conguration .....................................................................................................................43
Custom Conguration......................................................................................................................46
Partitioning and Formatting Your Logical Drives..............................................................................49
Creating Logical Drives on Other Systems in Your Storage Space....................................................49
6 Protecting Your Data.............................................................................................................................................50
Creating and Managing Hot Spares..............................................................................................................50
Hot Spare Limitations......................................................................................................................50
Global Spare or Dedicated Spare?...................................................................................................50
Designating a Global Hot Spare.......................................................................................................50
Assigning a Dedicated Hot Spare or Pool Hot Spare........................................................................51
Deleting a Global Hot Spare ............................................................................................................52
Removing or Deleting a Dedicated Hot Spare.................................................................................53
Enabling Copyback.......................................................................................................................................54
Enabling Automatic Failover........................................................................................................................55
7 Modifying Your Storage Space..............................................................................................................................57
Understanding Logical Drives.......................................................................................................................57
Creating and Modifying Logical Drives.........................................................................................................57
Including Different-sized Disk Drives in a Logical Drive...................................................................58
Creating a Logical Drive Using Available Segments.........................................................................59
Creating a Hybrid RAID Logical Drive ..............................................................................................59
Fine-tuning Logical Drives............................................................................................................................60
Renaming a Logical Drive.................................................................................................................60
Changing the Read Cache Setting....................................................................................................61
Changing the Write Cache Setting...................................................................................................61
Changing the Stripe Size .................................................................................................................62
Changing the Initialize Method .......................................................................................................62
Optimizing Logical Drive Performance.........................................................................................................62
Verifying Logical Drives................................................................................................................................63
Verifying and Fixing a Logical Drive.................................................................................................64
Enabling/Disabling Background Consistency Check........................................................................64
Increasing the Capacity of a Logical Drive....................................................................................................65
Changing the RAID Level of a Logical Drive..................................................................................................66
Erasing a Logical Drive..................................................................................................................................67
Deleting a Logical Drive................................................................................................................................67
Maintaining an Energy-Efcient 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 Optimizing the Structure of Your Storage Space...................................................................................................72
Adding Caching and Tiering to Your Storage Space......................................................................................72
About maxCache Plus .....................................................................................................................72
Tiers, Virtual Pools, and Virtual Volumes ........................................................................................73
maxCache vs. maxCache Plus .........................................................................................................74
Creating and Managing Virtual Pools...........................................................................................................75
Creating a Virtual Pool.....................................................................................................................75
Modifying a Virtual Pool .................................................................................................................76
Deleting a Virtual Pool.....................................................................................................................76
Creating and Managing Virtual Volumes......................................................................................................77
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maxView Storage Manager User's Guide