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A TT O Express Power Center Utility Inst allation and Operation Manual.
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Content s 1.0 ATTO Express Power Center Pr ovides Storage Solutions ........... 1 2.0 RAID Level 0 Overview .................................. ............................... 2 3.0 Using ATTO Express Pow er Center ........ ........................ ...
1 A TTO T echnology Inc. A TTO Express Powe r Center Installation and Opera tion Manual 1.0 A TT O Express Power Center Provides S torage Solutions Congratulations on your choice of the premier volume creation and management application for the W indows® and Macintosh® OS X operating systems.
2 A TTO T echnology Inc. A TTO Express Powe r Center Installation and Opera tion Manual 2.0 RAID Level 0 Overview Originally Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, now Redundant Array of Independent Drives, RAID is a storage system using multiple disk drives.
3 A TTO T echnology Inc. A TTO Express Powe r Center Installation and Opera tion Manual 3.0 Using A TT O Express Power Center The A TTO Express Power Ce nter offers blazing fast RAID performance for Windows ® and Mac OS X based applications.
4 4 In the Power Center screen, select Remove to remove the Power Ce nt er applicatio n. Note Y ou may remove the Express Power Center using the Add/Remove Programs in the control panel after you have removed the Power Center drivers. 5 Remove the installation CD.
5 A TTO T echnology Inc. A TTO Express Powe r Center Installation and Opera tion Manual • Click on the Quit button at the bottom of the screen to ex it the applic ation.
6 Exhibit 3-1 The Express Power Center Installation CD welcome screen..
7 A TTO T echnology Inc. A TTO Express Powe r Center Installation and Opera tion Manual 4.0 Creating RAID 0 V olumes A TTO Express Power Center allows you to create RAID Level 0 volumes. RAID Level 0, or striping, achieves higher I/O performance by breaking data into smaller units, then writing the data to sep arate physical drives.
8 Exhibit 4-1 The Express Po wer Center Utility screen. Exhibit 4-2 Dialo g boxes w alk you thro ugh the se tup proces s. Inse rt ico n Strip e In terle av e Str ipe Group t o which you wil l be addin.
9 A TTO T echnology Inc. A TTO Express Powe r Center Installation and Opera tion Manual Creating RAID 0 V olumes in Mac OS X Y ou must have at least two physical drives to create a RAID 0 striped volume.
10 Create several RAID volumes 1 Verify that the Drive name matches the drive on which to create the new volumes. 2U s e t h e Free space slider bar to choose the portion of the available free space that the new volumes occupies. Note Y ou may use the keyboard to enter the portion of free space, i.
11 A TTO T echnology Inc. A TTO Express Powe r Center Installation and Opera tion Manual Partition map is full. Y ou can create no more than 30 partitions per disk Th e system has not been changed. [V olum eName]: Partitions were n ot registered. The partitions have been saved, but not yet registered.
12 A TTO T echnology Inc. A TTO Express Powe r Center Installation and Opera tion Manual 5.0 Deleting RAID 0 V olumes The A TTO Express Power Ce nter software allows you to delete RAID Level 0 volumes. Deleting RAID 0 V olumes in Windows Note A stripe group cannot be deleted if the stripe group contains active partitions.
13 Exhibit 5-1 The Expr ess Power Center Utility scr een. Deleting RAID 0 V olumes in Mac OS X Deleting a volume from a drive frees up available space on your system. This free sp ace can be made into one or more new volumes. Note All data on a deleted volume is permanently erased, and all associated partitions are deleted as well.
14 A TTO T echnology Inc. A TTO Express Powe r Center Installation and Opera tion Manual Note Y ou may only delete one volume at a time. 3 Click on the Next button. 4 Verify param eters befor e ATTO Expres s Power Center for Mac OS X tries to delete any volumes.
15 Exhibit 5.1-1 The ef fect of deleti ng a volume.Th e top figure in Ex hibit 5.1-1 repr esents a storage configuration with LP1, LP2 and LP3 as str iped volume 1.
16 A TTO T echnology Inc. A TTO Express Powe r Center Installation and Opera tion Manual 6.0 Additional Cap abilities for Mac OS X A TTO Express Power Center for Mac OS X offers som e additional functionality such as Creating Stan dard V olumes and Benchmarking.
17 Create a single S t andard V olume From the Create screen, click on the Standard button. 9 Using the m ouse, hig hlight the driv e where you want the volume created.
18 A TTO T echnology Inc. A TTO Express Powe r Center Installation and Opera tion Manual Specify properties For each S tandard V olume created, you may specify properties such as format type, name and size. 1U s e t h e Select Volume list box to view the requested propertie s for a specific volume being created.
19 Possibl e error mess ages [V olum eName]: Partition was not created. Each partition is tagge d with this message before it has been manipulated. Reboot and try creating a volume again. [Partition m ap is fu ll. Y ou can create no more than 30 p artitions per disk.
20 A TTO T echnology Inc. A TTO Express Powe r Center Installation and Opera tion Manual Te s t p a r a m e t e r s Y our benchmark result s may be tuned using the following parameters.
i A TTO T echnology Inc. A TTO Express Powe r Center Installation and Opera tion Manual Glossary Some common terms used in the storage industry ar e defined below . Mor e information about Fibr e Channel, SCSI, SAS and S torage Ar ea Networks is available thr ough the A TTO T echnology website, www .
ii PCI Peripheral Componen t Interconnect: a bus which a llows devices to communicate with the CPU. RAID Originally Redundant Arra y of Inex pensive Disks, now Redundant Array of Independent Drives: a storage system spanning multiple disk drives .
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