Storage Management Service

Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator Version 1.4 User's Guide

Overview

The Storage Management Service provides storage management information in an integrated graphical view. The Server Administrator Storage Management Service enables you to view the status of local and remote storage attached to a monitored system. The Storage Management Service obtains logical and physical information about attached storage devices from the Array Manager managed system.

See the Server Administrator Command Line Interface User's Guide for information about running the Storage Management Service from the command line.

When using the Storage Management Service, you can click Help on the global navigation bar for more detailed information about the specific window you are viewing. Storage Management Service help is available for all windows accessible to the user based on user privilege level and the specific hardware and software groups that Server Administrator discovers on the managed system.

Software Prerequisites

The Server Administrator Storage Management Service requires that Dell OpenManage Array Manager version 3.4 or later is installed on the system to be managed as part of the Express Setup or Custom Setup managed system software installation from the Systems Management CD. Managed systems that do not have Array Manager 3.4 or later installed will still be able to perform diagnostics for direct-attached storage devices. See the Array Manager User's Guide for complete software and hardware requirements.

NOTE: Array Manager version 3.4 or later is installed as part of the Express Setup and Custom Setup installation options when installing managed system software from the Systems Management CD, provided that the managed system meets all of the Array Manager installation prerequisites. The Storage Management Service requires that you install Array Manager as part of the Server Administrator installation from the Systems Management CD. See the Dell OpenManage Array Manager User's Guide for complete software and hardware requirements. Array Manager has both a managed system and a management station (console) component. The managed system portion of Array Manager replaces the Windows Disk Management Service. To view the Disk Management page, you must install the management system component of Array Manager on the same system as the managed system component.

NOTE: Array Manager is not supported on Red Hat Linux operating systems.

Hardware Prerequisites

The managed system must have a supported RAID controller installed to view the status of local and remote storage attached to the system.

For a list of the supported RAID controllers and for other information about Storage Management Service hardware requirements, see the Server Administrator readme file on the Systems Management CD.

Storage Management Service Features

The Storage Management Service obtains logical and physical data from storage devices.

Server Administrator Storage Management Service allows you to perform the following tasks:

Display all of your storage information in a graphical environment. See the Storage object section in "Instrumentation Service" for a description of the available storage information.
Run the Server Administrator Diagnostic Service to diagnose problems with your storage devices. See "Diagnostic Service" for complete instructions.

NOTE: You must use Array Manager Console, version 3.4, to perform storage management functions such as configuring your local and remote attached storage devices, creating and managing software and hardware RAID configurations, formatting disks, assigning drive letters, and creating partitions and volumes. See the Array Manager User's Guide for instructions.

NOTE: Array Manager Version 3.4 does not support volumes management on systems running Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003.

Back to Contents Page