3Ware 9550SXU-8LP User Guide - Page 22

Chapter 1. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller 3ware Tools for Configuration and Management 3ware software tools lets you easily configure the drives attached to your 3ware RAID controller, specifying which drives should be used together as a RAID unit and the type of RAID configuration you want, and designating hot spares for use if a drive degrades. 3ware provides several tools for use in configuring and managing units attached to the 3ware controller: • 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager) • 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) • 3ware CLI (Command Line Interface) 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager) 3BM is a BIOS level tool for creating, deleting, and maintaining disk arrays, rebuilding arrays, designating hot spares, and setting controller policies. 3BM is the tool most frequently used to configure units immediately after installation of the controller, but can also be used after installation to maintain the controller and associated drives. For general information about working with 3BM, see Chapter 5, "3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2),". 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) 3DM is a daemon (under Linux) and a service (under Windows) which runs in the background on the controller's host system, and can be accessed through a web browser to provide ongoing monitoring and administration of the controller and associated drives. 3DM supports hot spare and hot swap for redundant units. 3DM can be used locally (on the system that contains the 9000) or remotely (on a system connected via a network to the system containing the 9000). For details about working with 3DM, see "3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2)" on page 65. 3DM 2 is the current version of the 3ware Disk Manager. Throughout this documentation, it is referred to interchangeably as 3DM and 3DM 2. 12 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide