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maxView™ Storage Manager User Guide for Adaptec® Smart Storage Controllers
maxView™ Storage Manager User Guide for Adaptec® Smart Storage Controllers
Index
  1. Home
  2. 12 Maintaining Physical Devices
  3. 12.10 Working with Controllers

  • 1 About this Guide
  • 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.

  • 3 Installing maxView Storage Manager
  • 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.

  • 5 Building Your Storage Space
  • 6 Protecting Your Data
  • 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; move arrays and logical drives; and perform advanced operations, such as creating a split mirror backup array.

  • 8 Working with maxCache Devices
  • 9 Working with maxCrypto™ Devices
  • 10 Working with Self Encrypting Drive (SED) Based Encryption
  • 11 Working with Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM)
  • 12 Maintaining Physical Devices
    • 12.1 Viewing Device Properties
    • 12.2 Multi Actuator Drives
    • 12.3 Locating Drives in Your Storage Space
    • 12.4 Working with Physical Device Error Counters
    • 12.5 Refresh SED Security Status
    • 12.6 Working with Failed or Failing Disk Drives
    • 12.7 Erasing a Disk Drive
    • 12.8 Initializing and Uninitializing Disk Drives

      This section describes how to initialize/uninitialize disk drives to enable the erased drive, erase data and meta-data (including logical drive information) from the disk drives (and SSDs) in your storage space. You can initialize or uninitialize individual disks, or use the wizard to initialize/uninitialize all disks on a controller.

    • 12.9 Setting the Physical Drive Boot Priority

      Use this option to set the boot priority of a physical device to Primary, Secondary, Primary and Secondary, or None (default). A controller can have only one physical (or logical) device as the primary or secondary boot device. When you select a new physical device as the primary/secondary boot drive, the boot priority of the existing primary/secondary boot drive is overwritten and set to None.

    • 12.10 Working with Controllers
      • 12.10.1 Rescanning a Controller
      • 12.10.2 Optimizing Controller Performance
      • 12.10.3 Changing the Connector Operating Mode
      • 12.10.4 Changing the Backplane Discovery Protocol Settings
      • 12.10.5 Changing the Maximum PHY Link Rate Settings
      • 12.10.6 Changing the Maximum PCIe Data Rate Settings
      • 12.10.7 Changing the Expander Minimum Scan Duration Settings
      • 12.10.8 Setting the PCIe Maximum Read Request Size
      • 12.10.9 Changing the Persistent Event Log Policy Setting
      • 12.10.10 Changing UEFI Health Reporting Mode Setting
    • 12.11 Working with Connectors
    • 12.12 Updating Controller, Enclosure, Backplane, and Disk Drive Firmware
  • 13 Monitoring Status and Activity

    This section describes how maxView Storage Manager helps you monitor status and activity in your storage space.

  • 14 Managing Your Storage Space
  • 15 Solving Problems

    This section describes how to troubleshoot the components in your storage space.

  • 16 Silent Installation on Windows and Linux
  • 17 Configuring SNMP Notifications on Windows and Linux
  • 18 Using the maxView Plugin for VMware vSphere 8 HTML5
  • 19 Using maxView Storage Manager with HBAs and Non-RAID Mode Controllers
  • 20 Selecting the Best RAID Level
  • 21 Icons At-a-Glance
  • 22 Smart Controller Device Status
  • 23 Display Properties of a Controller, Array, Logical Device, and a Physical Device
  • 24 maxView Video Tutorials
  • 25 Revision History
  • Microchip Information

12.10 Working with Controllers

This section describes how to use maxView Storage Manager to manage the controllers in your storage space:

  • To re-scan a controller, see Rescanning a Controller.
  • To optimize controller performance, see Optimizing Controller Performance.
  • To change the operating mode of connectors on the controller, see Changing the Connector Operating Mode.

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