Avago Technologies 3ware SAS 9750-16i4e - Manual (Page 26)

Chapter 1. Introducing the LSI 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card
14 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card Software User Guide, Version 10.2
nearest GB for drives under 45 GB (45,000,000,000 bytes), and rounded
down to the nearest 5 GB for drives over 45 GB. For example, a 44.3-GB
drive is rounded down to 44 GB, and a 123-GB drive is rounded down to
120 GB.
3ware Tools for Configuration and
Management
3ware software tools let you easily configure the drives attached to your
3ware RAID controller, specifying which drives you should use together as a
RAID unit and the type of RAID configuration that you want, and designating
hot spares for use if a drive degrades.
3ware provides the following tools for use in configuring and managing units
attached to the 3ware controller:
• 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager)
3BM is a BIOS-level tool available on PC-based systems that you can use
to create, delete, and maintain disk arrays, rebuild arrays, designate hot
spares, and set controller policies. 3BM is the tool most frequently used to
configure units immediately after installation of the controller, but also
can be used after installation to maintain the controller and associated
drives. (3BM is not available for Mac OS X.)
For general information about working with 3BM, see Chapter 4, “3ware
BIOS Manager (3BM) Introduction.”
• 3DM2 (3ware Disk Manager)
3DM2 provides browser-based software that you can use to create, delete,
and maintain disk arrays, rebuild arrays, designate hot spares, and set
controller policies. 3DM2 is a daemon (under FreeBSD, Linux,
Mac OS X, OpenSolaris, and VMware) and a service (under Windows)
that runs in the background on the controller’s host system. You can
access 3DM2 through a web browser to provide ongoing monitoring and
administration of the controller and associated drives. You can use 3DM2
locally (on the system that contains the 9750) or remotely (on a system
connected via a network to the system containing the 9750).
For details about working with the 3ware Disk Manager 2, see
“3DM2 (3ware Disk Manager 2) Introduction” on page 44.
Note: All drives in a unit must be of the same type, either SAS or SATA.