The main window of Adaptec Storage Manager has three main panels—left, right, and bottom. The left panel always shows the Enterprise View; the bottom panel always shows the Event Viewer. Different information, or views, appear in the right panel depending on which component is selected in the Enterprise View. (Show Me!)
In this example, Controller 1 is selected in the Enterprise View, and the right panel displays the Physical Devices and Logical Devices Views.
You can resize the panels and scroll horizontally or vertically to view more or less information.
The Enterprise View is an expandable "tree" with three main sections:
Under Direct Attached Storage, the Enterprise View lists any direct attached RAID controllers installed on the local system and any direct attached RAID controllers on other systems that you are managing remotely.
When you select a component in the Enterprise View, the disk drives and logical devices associated with it appear in the right-hand panel. (Show Me!)
You can perform most tasks by selecting a controller in the Enterprise View and working with its associated devices in the right-hand panel.
The iSCSI Storage section lists any IP SAN components that are part of your storage space, including iSCSI Storage Appliances, iSCSI Storage Hosts, and the Management Services that coordinate communication between them.
To enable support in Adaptec Storage Manager, right-click inside the Enterprise View, then select iSCSI Storage:
Note! For more information about working with iSCSI storage, refer to the Snap Server 700i Series User’s Guide on the software installation CD that came with your Snap Server.
The Network Attached Storage section lists any GuardianOS-powered Snap Servers on your network. When you select Network Attached Storage in the Enterprise View, the Snap Servers on your network are listed in the right-hand panel of the window.
To enable support in Adaptec Storage Manager, right-click inside the Enterprise View, then select Network Attached Storage:
Note! For more information about working with Network Attached Storage, refer to the Snap Server 700i Series User’s Guide on the software installation CD that came with your Snap Server.
When you first open the GUI, it automatically displays only the Direct Attached Storage section. You can control which sections appear by enabling or disabling them in the View menu or by right-clicking inside the Enterprise View.
When you select a controller in the Enterprise View, information about the physical disk drives and enclosures connected to that controller appear in the Physical Devices View. (Show Me!)
If your storage space includes an enclosure, you can right-click the enclosure management device icon to view the status and properties of the enclosure’s devices, such as its disk drives and fans.
Disk drives designated as hot spares have plus signs (+) beside them:
A blue plus sign means that the spare is protecting at least one logical device.
A hot spare with a yellow plus sign may not be large enough to protect the logical device it’s assigned to, or may not be assigned to a logical device.
(See What Do the Hot Spare Icons Mean?)
With tool tips enabled, hold your cursor over any disk drive to see its status, port number, and maximum speed. You can also click the arrow icon to see this same information for all the disk drives at the same time. To reveal further information, use the View buttons to change how the disk drives are displayed; see Revealing More Information, below.
A disk drive shaded in light blue is not part of any logical device. A disk drive shaded half light/half dark blue has space available for additional logical devices or snapshots.
When you select a controller in the Enterprise View, the logical devices associated with that controller appear in the Logical Devices View. (Show Me!)
The RAID level of a logical device is indicated by the number inside the logical device icon .
Logical Devices protected by hot spares have plus signs (+) beside them. (See What Do the Hot Spare Icons Mean?)
With tool tips enabled, hold your cursor over any logical device to see its name and size; hold your cursor over any logical device to see its name, size, and status. You can also click the arrow icon to view this same information for all logical devices at the same time.
Select a logical device to highlight the disk drives that comprise it in the Physical Devices View, and the logical device created from it in the Logical Devices View.
You can also select any disk drive to see which (if any) logical device it belongs to. A disk drive shaded in light blue is not part of any logical device.
You can reveal more information about disk drives and logical devices by using the View buttons to change what information displays.
Note! Not all views are available for all components.