Adaptec Storage Manager User Manual

Adaptec

Storage Manager

User’s Guide

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Contents
1 About This Guide
Terminology Used in this Guide...................................................	15
2 Introduction to Adaptec Storage Manager
About Adaptec Storage Manager ..................................................	17
About the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent.................................	17
System Requirements ....................................................................	18
Growing Your Storage Space with Adaptec Storage Manager ....	19
A Simple Storage Space ..........................................................	19
An Advanced Storage Space ...................................................	19
Continuing to Grow Your Storage Space ..............................	20
Adding Enhanced Features ...........................................................	21
Unlocking the Enhanced Features .........................................	22
Getting Started Checklist...............................................................	23
3 Step 1: Installing Adaptec Storage Manager
Installing on Windows ..................................................................	25
Before You Begin ....................................................................	25
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager ......................................	25
Completing a Silent Installation (Advanced)........................	26
Installing on Linux.........................................................................	28
Before You Begin ....................................................................	28
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager ......................................	28

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	Installing on NetWare ...................................................................	29
	Before You Begin ....................................................................	29
	Installing Adaptec Storage Manager ......................................	29
4	Step 2: Starting Adaptec Storage Manager
	Starting Adaptec Storage Manager on Windows .........................	31
	Starting Adaptec Storage Manager on Linux ...............................	32
	Starting Adaptec Storage Manager on NetWare..........................	32
	Starting the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent Only .....................	33
	Starting the Agent on Windows.............................................	33
	Starting the Agent on Linux ...................................................	34
	Starting the Agent on NetWare..............................................	34
	Understanding Permission Levels ................................................	35
	Administrator Level................................................................	35
	User Level ................................................................................	36
	Guest Level ..............................................................................	36
	Configuring NetWare User Authentication..........................	37
	Logging Out of Adaptec Storage Manager ...................................	38
	Logging Back In ......................................................................	38
5	Step 3: Exploring Adaptec Storage Manager
	Navigating the Main Window.......................................................	40
	Using Enterprise View...................................................................	40
	Using Physical Devices View.........................................................	41
	Using Logical Devices View ..........................................................	42
	Revealing More Disk Drive Information .....................................	43
	Checking System Status.................................................................	45
	Working in Adaptec Storage Manager .........................................	46
	About the Actions Menu ........................................................	46
	Getting Help...................................................................................	46

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6 Step 4: Building Your Storage Space
Selecting a Configuration Method................................................	48
Express Configuration: Building the Easy Way ...........................	48
Partitioning and Formatting Your Logical Drives ................	50
Next Steps................................................................................	51
Custom Configuration (Advanced)..............................................	51
Including More Systems in Your Storage Space ...................	55
Building a RAID Volume ..............................................................	56
RAID Controller Support..............................................................	59
Managing Your Storage Space ......................................................	59
7 Step 5: Customizing Adaptec Storage Manager
Logging In to Remote Systems......................................................	61
Creating Display Groups...............................................................	63
Setting Preferences and Changing Views .....................................	65
Sorting Systems in the Enterprise View.................................	65
Setting the Standard Unit of Measure ...................................	66
Changing the Main Window Appearance .............................	66
Customizing the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent ......................	67
Broadcasting Event Alerts from a System..............................	67
Changing a System’s Audible Alarm Settings........................	67
Changing a System’s Event Log Setting.................................	69
Changing a System’s Agent Base Port Number ....................	69
8 Running Adaptec Storage Manager from the CD
When to Choose Bootable-CD Mode ..........................................	71
Bootable-CD Mode Limitations ............................................	71
Getting Started in Bootable-CD Mode.........................................	71
Running Adaptec Storage Manager from the CD........................	72

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9	Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares
	Understanding Logical Drives ......................................................	74
	Creating Logical Drives .................................................................	75
	Setting the Size of a Logical Drive..........................................	75
	Including Different-sized Disk Drives in a Logical Drive.....	76
	Creating a Logical Drive Using Available Space....................	77
	Fine-tuning Logical Drives............................................................	78
	Changing the Write Cache Setting.........................................	79
	Changing the Stripe Size.........................................................	79
	Changing the Read Cache Setting..........................................	80
	Changing the Initialize Method .............................................	80
	Changing the Initialize Priority..............................................	81
	Verifying Logical Drives ................................................................	81
	Verifying and Fixing a Logical Drive .....................................	82
	Verifying a Logical Drive (Without Fix) ...............................	83
	Enabling/Disabling Background Consistency Check ...........	84
	Increasing the Capacity of a Logical Drive...................................	84
	Extending a Partition on a Logical Drive ..............................	87
	Changing the RAID Level of a Logical Drive ...............................	87
	Deleting a Logical Drive ................................................................	89
	Working with Hot Spares..............................................................	90
	Hot Spare Limitations ............................................................	90
	Dedicated Spare or Global Spare?..........................................	90
	Designating a Global Hot Spare.............................................	91
	Assigning a Dedicated Hot Spare...........................................	92
	What Do the Hot Spare Icons Mean? ....................................	93
	Removing a Hot Spare............................................................	93
10	Protecting Your Data
	Creating a Snapshot.......................................................................	96
	Snapshot Limitations..............................................................	96
	Creating a Snapshot with Backup ..........................................	97
	Creating a Snapshot Without Backup ...................................	97
	Deleting a Snapshot ................................................................	97
	Enabling Copyback........................................................................	98

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11 Monitoring Your Storage Space
Monitoring Options ....................................................................	100
Checking Activity in Your Storage Space ...................................	101
Viewing the Full List of Events.............................................	101
Clearing the Event Log .........................................................	102
What Do the Status Icons Mean?................................................	102
Using Event Notifications to Monitor Status.............................	103
Setting up Event Notifications .............................................	103
Managing the Event Notification List..................................	107
Monitoring and Managing the Notification Log ................	109
Disabling Event Notifications ..............................................	111
Setting Up Email Notifications ............................................	111
Managing the Email List.......................................................	115
Monitoring and Managing the Email Log...........................	116
Changing the Email Notification Manager Settings ...........	118
Disabling Email Notifications ..............................................	119
Broadcasting Event Alerts to Users.............................................	120
Silencing and Testing the Audible Alarm...................................	121
Testing the Alarm .................................................................	121
Silencing the Alarm...............................................................	122
Disabling a Controller’s Alarm ............................................	122
Viewing Component Properties .................................................	122
12 Managing Tasks
Scheduling a Task ........................................................................	124
Opening the Task Manager.........................................................	126
Monitoring Tasks ........................................................................	127
Monitoring Upcoming Tasks in the Task List ....................	127
Checking Past Tasks and Events in the Event Log ..............	127
Modifying a Task .........................................................................	129
What if a task misses its start time?......................................	130
Deleting a Task.............................................................................	130
Disabling the Task Manager........................................................	131
Re-enabling the Task Manager ............................................	131

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13	Managing Remote Systems
	Introduction.................................................................................	133
	Removing a Remote System........................................................	133
14 Working with Display Groups
	Adding a System to a Display Group..........................................	135
	Viewing Display Group Status ....................................................	136
	Removing a System from a Display Group ................................	136
	Moving a System from One Display Group to Another............	137
	Renaming a Display Group.........................................................	137
	Deleting a Display Group............................................................	138
15 Managing Controllers and Disk Drives
	Rescanning a Controller..............................................................	140
	Registering New Controllers .......................................................	140
	Viewing Controller Properties ....................................................	141
	Saving Your Controller Configuration.......................................	141
	Updating Controller BIOS and Firmware..................................	142
	Before You Begin ..................................................................	142
	Updating the Controller BIOS and Firmware.....................	142
	Setting a Disk Drive to ‘Failed’....................................................	144
	Replacing Disk Drives in a Logical Drive ...................................	145
16	Solving Problems
	Identifying a Failed or Failing Component................................	147
	Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ........................................	147
	Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare........................	148
	Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare.................	149
	Failure in Multiple Logical Drives Simultaneously.............	149
	Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Logical Drive.....................	149
	Multiple Failures in the Same Logical Drive .......................	150
	Removing a Failed Disk Drive’s Icon...................................	150
	Rebuilding Logical Drives ...........................................................	151
	Solving Notification Problems....................................................	151
	Creating an Archive File..............................................................	152
	Troubleshooting Adaptec Storage Manager...............................	152

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A Configuring SNMP Support
Configuring SNMP Support on Windows.................................	154
Configuring SNMP Support on Linux .......................................	155
Configuring SNMP Support on NetWare..................................	155
B Quick Answers to Common Questions...
How do I...? ..................................................................................	157
Set up my storage space?.......................................................	157
Open the Configuration wizard?..........................................	157
Turn off the alarm? ...............................................................	157
Add a new user to Adaptec Storage Manager? ....................	157
Add a remote system? ...........................................................	157
Prevent a user from changing my storage space?................	157
Check disk drive or logical drive status?..............................	157
Access a feature with a padlock icon beside it?....................	157
Log out of Adaptec Storage Manager? .................................	157
Schedule a task?.....................................................................	158
Find the Task Manager?........................................................	158
Find the Notification Manager? ...........................................	158
Find the Email Notification Manager? ................................	158
What’s the difference between...?................................................	159
Adaptec Storage Manager and the agent?............................	159
Event notifications, email notifications, and event alerts? .159
C Buttons and Icons At-a-Glance
Icons in the Physical Devices View .............................................	161
Icons in the Logical Devices View...............................................	161
Buttons in the Physical/Logical Devices Views ..........................	162
Buttons on the Main Window Tool Bar.....................................	162

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D Understanding RAID
Understanding Drive Segments ..................................................	164
RAID 0 (Non-RAID Logical Drives) ..........................................	164
RAID 1 Logical Drives.................................................................	165
RAID 1 Enhanced Logical Drives ...............................................	166
RAID 10 Logical Drives...............................................................	167
RAID 5 Logical Drives.................................................................	168
RAID 5EE Logical Drives ............................................................	169
RAID 50 Logical Drives...............................................................	170
RAID 6 Logical Drives.................................................................	171
RAID 60 Logical Drives...............................................................	172
Selecting the Best RAID Level .....................................................	173

Glossary

Index

About This Guide	1

This User’s Guide explains how to install and use Adaptec® Storage Manager to build a storage space and manage your stored data, whether you have a single RAID controller installed in a server or a complex Storage Area Network (SAN) with multiple RAID controllers and servers.

This Guide is written for advanced computer users who want to create a storage space for their data. Advanced knowledge of storage networks is not required, but you should be familiar with computer hardware, data storage, and Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) technology.

If you are using Adaptec Storage Manager as part of a complex storage system, such as a SAN, you should be familiar with network administration terminology and tasks, have knowledge of Local Area Network (LAN) and SAN technology, and be familiar with the input/ output (I/O) technology—such as Fibre Channel (FC) or Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)—that you are using on your network.

Note: Because this Guide covers multiple Adaptec RAID products, some of the features and functions described here may not be available for your controller.

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Terminology Used in this Guide

Because this Guide provides information that can be used to manage multiple Adaptec RAID products in a variety of configurations from DAS to SAN, the generic term “storage space” is used to refer to the controller(s) and disk drives being managed with Adaptec Storage Manager.

For efficiency, the term “components” or “component” is used when referring generically to the physical and virtual parts of your storage space, such as systems, disk drives, controllers, and logical drives.

Many of the terms and concepts referred to in this Guide are known to computer users by multiple names. In this Guide, this terminology is used:

●Controller (also known as adapter, HBA, board, or card)

●Disk drive (also known as hard disk, hard drive, or hard disk drive)

●Logical drive (also known as logical device)

Note: For more information, see Understanding RAID on page 163 and the Glossary on page 174.

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Introduction to Adaptec
Storage Manager
In this chapter...
About Adaptec Storage Manager ......................................................		17
About the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent .....................................		17
System Requirements.........................................................................		18
Growing Your Storage Space with Adaptec Storage Manager .........		19
Adding Enhanced Features................................................................		21
Getting Started Checklist...................................................................		23

This chapter describes Adaptec Storage Manager and the Adaptec Storage Manager agent, explains the concept of a “storage space” and provides a checklist of getting-started tasks.

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About Adaptec Storage Manager

Adaptec Storage Manager is a software application that helps you build a storage space for your online data, using Adaptec RAID controllers and disk drives.

With Adaptec Storage Manager, you can group disk drives into logical drives and build in redundancy to protect your data and improve system performance.

You can also use Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor and manage all the controllers and disk drives in your storage space from a single location.

About the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent

When Adaptec Storage Manager is installed on a computer, the Adaptec Storage Manager agent is also installed automatically. The agent is like a service that keeps your storage space running. It’s designed to run in the background, without user intervention, and its job is to monitor and manage system health, event notifications, tasks schedules, and other on-going processes on that system. It sends notices when tasks are completed successfully, and sounds an alarm when errors or failures occur on that system.

The agent uses less memory than the full application. If your storage space includes systems that won’t be connected to monitors (and therefore won’t require the user interface described in this Guide), you can choose to run the agent only on those systems instead of the full application (see page 33). You may want to do this if system resources are limited, or if you want more system resources available for other tasks.

You can manage and monitor systems running the agent only by logging into them as remote systems (see page 61).

You can also customize the agent settings to suit your storage space requirements (see page 67).

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System Requirements

●PC-compatible computer with Intel Pentium, or equivalent, processor

●At least 128 MB of RAM

●20 MB of free drive space

●16-bit SVGA color monitor with a resolution of at least 800 x 600

●CD drive

●One of these operating systems:

●Microsoft® Windows® 2000—Server, Advanced Server, Professional

●Windows 2003 Server—Standard, Advanced

●Windows XP—Home Edition, Professional

●Red Hat® Linux—Professional, Enterprise, Advanced Server

●SuSE Linux—Personal, Professional, Enterprise

Note: For the latest on Adaptec’s support of Linux, or to download driver sources, visit www.adaptec.com.

●Novell®—NetWare® 6.5

Note: Adaptec Storage Manager can also be used before an operating system is installed. See page 70 for more information.

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Growing Your Storage Space with Adaptec Storage Manager

As your requirements change, Adaptec Storage Manager grows with your storage space as you add more controllers, more disk drives, more logical drives, and more data protection.

A Simple Storage Space

The example below shows the sort of simple storage space that might be appropriate in a home office or for a small business. This storage space includes one RAID controller and two disk drives installed in a server.

For data protection, the disk drives have been used to build a RAID 1 logical drive.

Adaptec Storage Manager

Server

RAID 1

An Advanced Storage Space

The example below shows how you can grow your storage space to meet the expanding requirements of your business. For data protection, segments of space from each disk drive have been used to build two RAID 5 logical drives. One logical drive stores all the customer information and the other logical drive stores the business’s accounting, payroll, and personnel information.

Adaptec Storage Manager

Server	RAID 5
RAID 5
Customer	Internal
Data	Data

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Continuing to Grow Your Storage Space

As your needs change, Adaptec Storage Manager will help you grow your storage space to include multiple controllers and disk drives in multiple locations.

The Administrator of the storage space shown in the example below can create and modify logical drives and monitor all the controllers and disk drives in the storage space from a single workstation.

Server

RAID 1

Department 1

Data

Adaptec Storage Manager

Server	RAID 5
RAID 5
Department 2	Department 3
Data	Data

	RAID 50	Customer
		Data

Server

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Adding Enhanced Features

As you grow your storage space, you can enhance data protection and improve performance by upgrading your Adaptec controller with extra features, then manage these enhanced features with Adaptec Storage Manager.

Adaptec offers a package of upgrade features that can be activated with a feature key (sold separately). Purchase a feature key to unlock these features:

●Copyback (see page 98)

●Snapshots (see page 96)

●RAID 1E (see page 166)

●RAID 5EE (see page 169)

●RAID 6 (see page 171)

●RAID 60 (see page 172)

Locked features—features which are unavailable without a key— have a padlock icon (shown at right) beside them, as shown in the examples below. If you select a locked feature, you are reminded that a key is required to unlock it.

To purchase a feature key, contact your Adaptec Reseller or refer to the Adaptec Web site at www.adaptec.com.

To unlock the enhanced features with a feature key, see page 22.

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Unlocking the Enhanced Features

To unlock enhanced features with a feature key:

1In the Enterprise View, right-click the controller you want, then click Add feature key.

The Add Feature Key window opens.

2 Enter the feature key, then click OK.

3Click OK to confirm.

The enhanced features are unlocked and are now ready for use.

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Getting Started Checklist

This Guide provides five special Getting Started chapters to help you install, start, and begin to use Adaptec Storage Manager.

Step 1: Install Adaptec Storage Manager on every computer that will be part of your storage space (see page 24).

Step 2: Start Adaptec Storage Manager—or the Adaptec Storage Manager agent only—on every computer in your storage space (see page 30).

Step 3: Explore the features of Adaptec Storage Manager (see page 39).

Step 4: Build your storage space (see page 47).

Step 5: Optional—Customize Adaptec Storage Manager and the Adaptec Storage Manager agent (see page 60).

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Step 1: Installing Adaptec
Storage Manager
In this chapter...
Installing on Windows.......................................................................	25
Installing on Linux.............................................................................	28
Installing on NetWare........................................................................	29

Adaptec Storage Manager must be installed on every computer that will be part of your storage space.

To install Adaptec Storage Manager, follow the instructions for your operating system:

Note: You need administrator or root privileges to install Adaptec Storage Manager. For details on verifying privileges, refer to your operating system documentation.

To use Adaptec Storage Manager to configure a RAID controller before you install your operating system, see Running Adaptec Storage Manager from the CD on page 70.

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Installing on Windows

This section describes how to install Adaptec Storage Manager on computers running Windows. See System Requirements on page 18 for a list of supported operating systems.

Note: Advanced users—To perform a silent installation, follow the instructions on page 26.

Before You Begin

If a previous version of Adaptec Storage Manager is installed on your computer, you must remove it before beginning this installation. To uninstall Adaptec Storage Manager, use the Add/Remove Programs option in your Windows Control Panel.

Installing Adaptec Storage Manager

1Insert the Adaptec Storage Manager CD.

The Installation wizard opens automatically. (If it doesn’t open, browse to the CD in Windows Explorer, then click Autorun.)

2Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

Do not install SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) unless you have a specific requirement for Adaptec Storage Manager to work with SNMP gets and traps. (See page 153 for more information.)

3Repeat these steps to install Adaptec Storage Manager on every Windows computer that will be part of your storage space.

4Continue with Starting Adaptec Storage Manager on Windows on page 31.

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Completing a Silent Installation (Advanced)

A silent installation uses command line parameters to complete an installation without messages or user interaction.

To complete a silent installation:

1Insert the Adaptec Storage Manager CD into your CD drive.

2Open a command prompt window and change to the CD directory.

3Install Adaptec Storage Manager using this command line string:

setup.exe /s /v“ /qn <OPTIONS>”

This table describes the command line options. Multiple features can be separated with commas.

	Option	Required	Values
	INSTALLDIR	Yes	\“path to installation directory\”
			The installation path must be enclosed in
			escaped quotation marks.
			For example:
			INSTALLDIR=\“C:\Program Files\Adaptec\
			Adaptec Storage Manager\”
	ADDLOCAL	No	■ All—(Default) Installs all features.
			■ Manager—Installs Adaptec Storage
			Manager.
			■ SNMPSupport—Installs SNMP support;
			requires Manager feature. (See page 153 for
			more information.)
			■ ASMReadme—Installs the Readme file and
			Start menu shortcut.
			■ CLITools—Installs Command Line
			Interface tools.
			Note: Use commas to separate multiple
			features.
	REBOOT	No	■ Force—(Default) Forces a reboot at the
			end of the installation.
			■ Suppress—Suppresses a reboot unless files
			were in use and could not be overwritten
			during installation.
			■ ReallySuppress—Suppresses all reboots at
			the end of the installation.

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Example command strings:

● Install all default features and default to reboot:

setup.exe /s /v“ /qn INSTALLDIR=\“C:\Program Files\Adaptec\ Adaptec Storage Manager\””

●Install Adaptec Storage Manager, Readme, and SNMP support, and default to reboot:

setup.exe /s /v“ /qn INSTALLDIR=\”C:\Program Files\Adaptec\ Adaptec Storage Manager\“ADDLOCAL=Manager, SNMPSupport,ASMReadme”

4After a minute or two, the silent installation should be complete and the Adaptec Storage Manager icon should be accessible.

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Installing on Linux

This section describes how to install Adaptec Storage Manager on computers running Linux. See System Requirements on page 18 for a list of supported operating systems.

Adaptec Storage Manager includes the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).

Before You Begin

If a previous version of Adaptec Storage Manager is installed on your computer, you must remove it before beginning this installation. Any customization files you created with the previous version are saved and used in the upgrade.

To remove Adaptec Storage Manager, type the rpm --erase StorMan command.

Installing Adaptec Storage Manager

1Insert the Adaptec Storage Manager CD.

2Mount the Adaptec Storage Manager CD:

Red Hat mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

SuSE mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

3Change to the cdrom directory:

Red Hat cd /mnt/cdrom/linux/manager

SuSE cd /media/cdrom/linux/manager

4Extract the RPM package and install it: rpm --install ./StorMan*.rpm

5Unmount the Adaptec Storage Manager CD:

Red Hat umount /mnt/cdrom

SuSE umount /media/cdrom

6Repeat these steps to install Adaptec Storage Manager on every Linux computer that will be part of your storage space.

7Continue with Starting Adaptec Storage Manager on Linux on page 32.

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Installing on NetWare

This section describes how to install Adaptec Storage Manager on computers running NetWare. See System Requirements on page 18 for a list of supported operating systems.

Before You Begin

You need the latest Support Pack for your operating system so you can run the supported Java Virtual Machine (JVM). You need JVM version 1.3 or later. To check your JVM version, load JVM, type JAVA -VERSION.

Note: For the latest updates from Novell, visit www.novell.com.

Installing Adaptec Storage Manager

1Insert the Adaptec Storage Manager CD.

2From the command prompt, type load cdrom and press Enter.

3From the command prompt, type:

xx_yy_zz:\netware\manager\install

where xx is the product CD, yy is the version number, and zz is the release number. For example:

adptcd_v2_01

The installation program starts.

4Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

5Repeat these steps to install Adaptec Storage Manager on every NetWare computer that will be part of your storage space.

6Continue with Starting Adaptec Storage Manager on NetWare on page 32.