Welcome to the 3DM2 Help System

This online help for 3DM2™ provides instructions for using 3DM2 to configure and maintain your LSI™ 3ware® SATA+SAS RAID controller card.

Finding What You Need in 3DM2 Help

When you click Help on the 3DM2 menu bar, the Help opens to information about the page you have in view. (On the Controller Summary page, clicking Help brings you to this “Welcome” topic about the Help system. For details about the Controller Summary page, click here.)

To find information about other topics, use the TOC (Table of Contents) and Index links at the top of the Help page.


For information about	See
First time setup and RAID configuration	Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller
Features in the LSI 3ware 10.2 software release	Introducing the LSI 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card and Highlights of the 10.2 Release
Creating a RAID unit	Configuring a New Unit
Error messages	Error and Notification Messages
3DM2 overview and setup	Starting 3DM2 and Logging In Working with the 3DM2 Screens Setting Up 3DM2 Preferences

Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout the online help:

3DM and 3DM2 both refer to the 3ware Disk Manager, version 2.

Current controller is used to refer to the controller which is currently selected in the drop-down list at the top of the 3DM2 page.

Unit refers to one or more disks configured through 3ware to be treated by the operating system as a single drive. Also known as an array. Array and unit are used interchangeably throughout this manual.

Boldface is used for buttons, fields, and settings that appear on the screen.

Monospace font is used for code and to indicate things you type.

Other Documentation

In PDF format, on the CD that came with your controller, and available through the LSI website at
http://www.lsi.com/channel/ChannelDownloads:

3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card Software Users Guide, Version 10.02

3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card CLI Guide, Version 10.2

3ware 9750 SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card Installation Guide

In HTML format, the 3ware HTML Bookshelf includes the content of both the user guide and CLI guide, version 10.2. It is available in the Docs folder on your 3ware CD.

Additional support information is available in the LSI 3ware Knowledge Base, at this website: http://kb.lsi.com

Content last updated: 5.07.10 (10.2)