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Overview

This chapter describes the overview of the Universal RAID Utility.

What is Universal RAID Utility?

The Universal RAID Utility enables RAID Systems in a computer to be managed.

The Universal RAID Utility is characterized as follows.

1. Allowing a variety of RAID Systems to be managed

Conventionally, a specific management utility must be used for each RAID System. On the other hand, only the

Universal RAID Utility can manage more than one RAID System. For the RAID Systems which the Universal RAID

Utility can manage, see the documentation on computers and RAID Systems.

2. Operating in either Standard or Advanced Mode

The Universal RAID Utility can operate in two RAID System Management Modes, which are Standard Mode and

Advanced Modes.

The Standard Mode provides the Universal RAID Utility with standard management functions of RAID Systems.

The Advanced Mode provides the Universal RAID Utility with advanced management and maintenance functions

of RAID Systems.

Using the two RAID System Management Modes appropriately depending on users and jobs allows the usability

of the Universal RAID Utility to be improved and malfunctions to be avoided.

3. Configuring RAID Systems easily

Using the Universal RAID Utility, you can configure a RAID System easily without expert knowledge of the RAID

System.

The Universal RAID Utility provides the "simple Logical Drive create function" allowing a Logical Drive to be

created by selecting only two selection items according to the guide of the Universal RAID Utility and the "Easy

Configuration" allowing a RAID System to be configured only by defining uses of unused Physical Devices.

4. Supporting general functions required for configurations, operations and maintenances of RAID Systems

The Universal RAID Utility supports general functions for configuring a RAID System (including creating Logical

Drive and making Hot Spare), general operation functions (including log recording, Patrol Read and Consistency

Check), and general functions required for maintenance (including Rebuild and Locate functions).

5. Troubleshooting RAID Systems

The Universal RAID Utility can detect failures occurred in RAID Systems by using various functions.

The RAID Viewer, the GUI of the Universal RAID Utility, indicates the configurations and status of RAID Systems

comprehensibly with trees and icons. The raidcmd, the CLI of the Universal RAID Utility, indicates the same

information too. In addition, the Universal RAID Utility registers failures occurred in RAID Systems not only to the

dedicated log but also the OS log. Further, the Universal RAID Utility can send alerts to the NEC ESMPRO

Manager normally attached to NEC Express series systems.

6. RAID System Management by NEC ESMPRO Manager

Universal RAID Utility (Windows / Linux Edition) can manage the RAID System using Web GUI of NEC ESMPRO

Manager Ver. 5.5 or later. The RAID System that exists in a remote environment can be managed by using NEC

ESMPRO Manager like RAID Viewer and Log Viewer. You cannot manage the RAID System from Windows GUI of

NEC ESMPRO Manager. Be sure to use Web GUI to manage the RAID Controller.

7. Management by ExpressUpdate

Universal RAID Utility Ver4.0 supports ExpressUpdate.

This feature enables you to update Universal RAID Utility to the latest version when a new version of Universal

RAID Utility is released. This feature is available with Universal RAID Utility Ver2.5 or the later versions.

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