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Welcome to the 3DM2 Help System
Introducing the LSI 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card
What’s New for the 10.2 Release
Highlights of the 10.2 Release
System Requirements
Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels
RAID Concepts
RAID Concepts
Available RAID Configurations
Determining Which RAID Level to Use
Using Drive Capacity Efficiently
3ware Tools for Configuration and Management
Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features
Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller
Getting Started for PC Users
Getting Started for Mac OS Users
Initial Settings for Policies and Background Tasks
3DM2 (3ware Disk Manager 2) Introduction
Browser Requirements for 3DM2
Starting 3DM2 and Logging In
Logging In to the 3DM2 Web Application
Managing the 3DM2 Daemon under FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS, OpenSolaris, and VMware
Starting the 3DM2 Process under Microsoft Windows
Viewing 3DM2 Remotely Using a Web Browser
Working with the 3DM2 Screens
3DM2 Menus
Viewing Information About Different Controllers
Refreshing the Screen
Description of 3DM2 Pages
Setting Up 3DM2 Preferences
Setting and Changing 3DM2 Passwords
Managing E-mail Event Notification
Configuring the VMware Firewall to Allow Email Notification
Enabling and Disabling Remote Access
Setting the Listening Port #
Setting the Frequency of Page Refreshes
Controlling Command Logging in 3DM2
Configuring Your Controller
Viewing Information About a Controller
About Controller Policies
Viewing Controller Policies
Setting the Auto-Rebuild Policy
Using Auto-Carving for Multi LUN Support
Setting the Size of Volumes Created with Auto-Carving
Enabling and Setting Up Staggered Spin-up
Viewing Information About a Phy
Changing the Phy Link Speed
Configuring Units
Configuring a New Unit
Configuration Options When Creating a Unit
Creating a Unit
Partitioning, Formatting, and Mounting Units
Creating a Hot Spare
Naming a Unit
Setting Unit Policies
Enabling and Disabling the Unit Write Cache
Working with Read Cache Settings
Enabling or Disabling Auto-Verify for a Unit
Setting Overwrite ECC (Continue on Source Error When Rebuilding)
Enabling and Disabling Queuing for a Unit
Setting the StorSave Profile for a Unit
Rapid RAID Recovery
Changing An Existing Configuration by Migrating
RAID Level Migration (RLM) Overview
Changing RAID Level
Expanding Unit Capacity
Informing the Operating System of Changed Configuration
Deleting a Unit
Removing a Unit
Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another
Adding a Drive
Removing a Drive
Rescanning the Controller
Maintaining Units
Checking Unit and Drive Status
Viewing a List of Drives
Enclosure Drive LED Status Indicators
Unit Statuses
Drive Statuses
About Degraded Units
About Inoperable Units
Locating a Drive by Blinking Its LED
Alarms, Errors, and Other Events
Viewing Alarms, Errors, and Other Events
Using the Alert Utility Under Windows
Downloading an Error Log
Viewing SMART Data About a Drive
Background Tasks
About Initialization
About Verification
Using Auto Verification
Starting a Verify Manually
Rebuilding Units
Cancelling a Rebuild and Restarting It with a Different Drive
Working with the Background Task Mode
Setting the Background Task Mode
Setting Background Task Rate
Background Task Prioritization
Scheduling Background Tasks
Viewing Current Task Schedules
Turning On or Off Use of a Rebuild/Migrate Task Schedule
Selecting Advanced or Basic Verify Schedules
Removing a Task Slot from a Schedule
Adding a New Task Schedule Slot
Selecting Self-tests to be Performed
Maintaining Your Controller
Determining the Current Version of Your 3ware Driver
Updating the Firmware and Driver
Downloading the Driver and Firmware
Updating the Firmware Through 3DM2
Updating the Firmware Through DOS Using the 3ware Bootable CD
Viewing Battery Information
Testing Battery Capacity
Enclosure Management
Viewing a List of Enclosures
Checking Enclosure Component Status
Fan Status
Temp Sensor Status
Power Supply Status
Slot Summary
Locating a Specific Enclosure Component
Working with Enclosure Alarms
Controlling an Enclosure Alarm In 3DM2
Downloading an Enclosure Diagnostic Log
3DM2 Reference
Controller Summary page
Controller Details page
Unit Information page
Unit Details page
Drive Information page
Drive Details window
Controller Phy Summary page
Controller Settings page
Scheduling page
Maintenance page
Alarms page
Battery Backup page
Enclosure Summary page
Enclosure Details page
3DM2 Settings page
Troubleshooting
Web Resources
Before Contacting Customer Support
Basic Troubleshooting: Check This First
Command Logging
Drive Performance Monitoring
Enclosure-Related Problems
Problems in 3DM2
Error and Notification Messages
Glossary
Copyright, Trademarks, and Disclaimer
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