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2 Introduction to maxView Storage Manager
This section introduces the maxView Storage Manager software, explains the concept of “storage space” and provides a checklist of getting-started tasks.
4 Exploring maxView Storage Manager
This section familiarizes you with the main features of the maxView Storage Manager graphical user interface. It describes how to start and login to maxView Storage Manager. It also explains how to get help and log out of maxView Storage Manager when you are finished working with the application.
7 Modifying Your Storage Space
This section provides additional scenarios for creating and modifying arrays and logical drives. It explains how to check your logical drives for bad or inconsistent data; optimize controller and logical drive performance; and perform advanced operations, such as creating a split mirror backup array.
9.1 Viewing Device Properties
9.2 Locating Drives in Your Storage Space
9.3 Working with Physical Device Error Counters
9.4 Working with Failed or Failing Physical Drives
9.5 Erasing a Physical Drive
9.6 Initializing and Uninitializing Physical Drives
This section describes how to initialize/uninitialize NVMe drives to enable the erased drive, erase data and meta-data (including logical drive information) from the NVMe SSDs in your storage space. You can initialize or uninitialize individual NVMe drives, or use the wizard to initialize/uninitialize all NVMe drives on a controller.
9.7 Working with Controllers
9.8 Updating Accelerator and Physical Drive Firmware
10 Monitoring Status and Activity
This section describes how maxView Storage Manager helps you monitor status and activity in your storage space.
12 Solving Problems
This section describes how to troubleshoot the components in your storage space.
15.1 Comparing RAID Levels
Use this table to select the RAID levels that are most appropriate for the logical drives on your storage space, based on the number of available physical drives and your requirements for performance and reliability.
15 Non-redundant Logical Drives (RAID 0)
15.2 RAID 1 Logical Drives
15 RAID 10 Logical Drives
15 RAID 5 Logical Drives
15 RAID 50 Logical Drive
16 Icons At-a-Glance
17 Smart Controller Device Status
18 Display Properties of a Controller, Array, Logical Device and a Physical Device
19 Revision History