Dell™ OpenManage™ Server Administrator Storage Management provides enhanced features for configuring a system's locally-attached RAID and non-RAID disk storage. Storage Management enables you to perform controller and enclosure functions for all supported RAID and non-RAID controllers and enclosures from a single graphical or command-line interface without requiring use of the controller BIOS utilities. The graphical interface is wizard-driven with features for novice and advanced users. The command-line interface is fully-featured and scriptable. Using Storage Management, you can protect your data by configuring data-redundancy, assigning hot spares, or rebuilding failed physical disks. You can also perform data-destructive tasks. All users of Storage Management should be familiar with their storage environment and storage management.
This release of Storage Management supports SATA and SAS but not SCSI and fibre channel.
Storage Management does not display any information about operating systems that reside on the Secure Digital (SD)– or USB–drive.
Supports the VMware® ESXi version 3.5 Update 4 hypervisor
Supports the Server Administrator Web Server. For more information, see the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator User's Guide at the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
Supports Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controllers only
Does not provide SNMP trap support
Support for the Solid State Drive (SSD) for PERC firmware version 6.1 and later.
Supported Controllers
This release of Storage Management supports the following controllers.
The firmware and drivers listed in the Readme file refer to the minimum supported version for these controllers. Later versions of the firmware and drivers are also supported. See the Dell Support website at support.dell.com for the most recent driver and firmware requirements.
Supported RAID Controllers
Storage Management supports the following RAID controllers. See "RAID Controller Technology: SAS" for information on which technology the supported RAID controllers use.
PERC 5/E
PERC 5/i Integrated and PERC 5/i Adapter
SAS 5/iR Integrated and SAS 5/iR Adapter
PERC 6/E
PERC 6/i Integrated and PERC 6/i Adapter
CERC 6/I controller
SAS 6/iR controller
Supported Non-RAID Controllers
Storage Management supports the following non-RAID controllers.
SAS 5/i Integrated
SAS 5/E
Supported Enclosures
This release of Storage Management supports the following enclosures:
Dell PowerVault MD1000 and MD1120 storage system
Support for Disk and Volume Management
Storage Management does not provide disk and volume management. To implement disk and volume management, you need to use the native disk and volume management utilities provided by your operating system.
