3
Building Your Storage Space
In this chapter...
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 27
Choosing a Management System........................................................................................... 27
Starting and Logging In on the Local System ....................................................................... 28
Starting Adaptec Storage Manager on Remote Systems....................................................... 32
Logging into Remote Systems from the Local System.......................................................... 33
Creating Logical Drives.......................................................................................................... 35
Managing Your Storage Space ............................................................................................... 42
Follow the instructions in this chapter to start Adaptec Storage Manager, log in to each system
in your storage space, and create logical drives. (For more information, see
Understanding
Logical Drives
on page 60
.)
Note:
Before beginning the tasks in this chapter, ensure that Adaptec Storage Manager is installed
on every system that will be part of your storage space.