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Add-on Card User's Guide
You can use the Configuration Wizard Auto Configuration mode to automatically
create the best possible configuration with the available hardware. You can use the
Guided Configuration mode, which asks you a few brief questions about the configu-
ration, and then creates it for you. Or you can use the Manual Configuration mode,
which gives you complete control over all aspects of the storage configuration.
Monitoring Storage Devices
MegaRAID Storage Manager software displays the status of virtual disks, physical
disks, and other storage devices on the workstation or server that you are monitor-
ing. System errors and events are recorded in an event log file and are displayed on
the screen. Special device icons appear on the screen to notify you of disk failures
and other events that require immediate attention.
Maintaining Storage Configurations
You can use MegaRAID Storage Manager software to perform system maintenance
tasks such as running consistency checks on arrays that support redundancy.
4-2 Hardware and Software Requirements
The hardware requirements for MegaRAID Storage Manager software are as fol-
lows:
• PC-compatible computer with an IA-32 (32-bit) Intel Architecture processor or an
EM64T (64-bit) processor and at least 128 Mbytes of system memory (256 Mbytes
recommended)
• Hard disk drive with at least 50 Mbytes available free space
The supported operating systems for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software
are as follows:
• Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and Microsoft Windows
XP.
• Red Hat Linux 3.0 or 4.0
• SUSE SLES 9, with latest updates and service packs
Refer to your server documentation and to the operating system documentation for
more information on hardware and operating system requirements.
