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4.6 IBM ServeRAID Manager installation on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
4.7 Configure and run IBM ServeRAID Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
4.7.1 Start IBM ServeRAID Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
4.7.2 Add a Management Station to a ServeRAID Manager . . . . . . . . . . . 98
4.7.3 Remove Management Station from the IBM ServeRAID Manager
console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
4.7.4 Add an agent to a Management Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
4.7.5 Remove an agent from a Management Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
4.7.6 Display groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
4.7.7 Replicate IBM ServeRAID Manager settings to another system. . . 112
4.8 IBM TotalStorage DS300/DS400 array and logical drive management . 113
4.8.1 Create arrays, logical drives, and assign IQNs on the TotalStorage
DS300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
4.8.2 Create arrays, logical drives, and access control on the TotalStorage
DS400 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
4.8.3 Delete arrays on Total Storage DS300 and DS400 . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
4.8.4 Delete logical drives on TotalStorage DS300 and DS400 . . . . . . . 148
4.8.5 Create hotspare drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
4.8.6 Increase logical drive capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
4.8.7 Expand or migrate arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
4.9 Administer Management Station user accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
4.9.1 Administer Management Station user accounts with ServeRAID
Manager console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
4.9.2 Administer Management Station user accounts with USER_TOOL 163
4.10 Install premium feature license key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
4.10.1 Loosing the premium feature license key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
4.11 Flashcopy or SnapShot backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
4.12 Update TotalStorage DS300 and DS400 firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
4.12.1 Update DS300 and DS400 firmware with CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
4.12.2 Update DS300 and DS400 firmware with ServeRAID Manager . . 185
4.13 IBM ServeRAID Manager removal on Microsoft Windows . . . . . . . . . . 190
4.14 IBM ServeRAID Manager removal on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
4.15 Basic information gathering in case of trouble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
4.15.1 Gather information about the system with eGatherer and Dynamic
System Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
4.15.2 LED status of the Total Storage DS300 and DS400 and EXP400 196
4.15.3 Network cabling diagram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
4.15.4 IBM ServeRAID Manager support archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
4.15.5 IBM ServeRAID Manager log files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
4.15.6 Log files of the iSCSI SANsurfer Management software . . . . . . . 204
4.15.7 Log files of the IBM FAStT Management Suite Java (MSJ) . . . . . 204
Chapter 5. Performance and configuration considerations
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