Apple Xserve RAID User's guide Technical Information download pdf (Page 5)

PREFACE

About Software for

Xserve RAID Systems

You use three applications to conﬁgure and monitor your Xserve RAID system. Two of these

applications, RAID Admin and Fibre Channel Info, are included on a CD with the system.

(In some instances, the CD with RAID Admin and Fibre Channel Info is supplied with

other systems or cards as well.)

The third application, Disk Utility, is part of Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server.

You use RAID Admin to set up the Xserve RAID hardware, including

Creating or deleting RAID arrays (known as “hardware RAID”)

Monitoring the status of one or more Xserve RAID systems

Adjusting settings, including system name and password, network address for each

RAID controller, ﬁbre channel communication speed, drive cache, controller cache, and

LUN masking

Setting up email notiﬁcation for system alerts

You use Fibre Channel Info to locate an identiﬁer, the World Wide Port Name (WWPN),

associated with each port on the ﬁbre channel card in a host computer. You need this

number only if you have multiple host computers connected to one Xserve RAID system

through a switch. The Fibre Channel Info application works only with the Apple Fibre

Channel PCI Card.

You use Disk Utility to create volumes and mount them on the host system. You can also

use Disk Utility to add “software RAID” to two or more hardware RAID arrays. You use

Disk Utility for

Mounting arrays on the host system (which includes putting the ﬁle system on arrays and

creating volumes)

Implementing software RAID (striping or mirroring two or more RAID arrays)

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