RAID 5 monitoring

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Group,
Has anyone seen any utilities out there to monitor the health
of a Raid 5 array while still in windows?Sure you can boot
to the adaptec mgmnt. console and check,but I'd like to see
how things are going while in windows.I had a drive failure
this morning,that I could of checked on from home through
TS and went in earlier to correct it.,Adysthemic
 
Adysthemic said:
Group,
Has anyone seen any utilities out there to monitor the health
of a Raid 5 array while still in windows?Sure you can boot
to the adaptec mgmnt. console and check,but I'd like to see
how things are going while in windows.I had a drive failure
this morning,that I could of checked on from home through
TS and went in earlier to correct it.,Adysthemic
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What model RAID card do you have? I would think that it would have
come with some sort of monitoring software, like Adaptec Storage Manager.


-WD
 
Will Dormann said:
What model RAID card do you have? I would think that it would have
come with some sort of monitoring software, like Adaptec Storage Manager.


-WD
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Adaptec Hardware RAID 5 3210s.I'll take a look at Storage Manager.I just
read about DiskAlert,but it looks like
it has been discontinued.The article sounded good,but not showing up on the
makers site isn't very trust inspiring.
 
Adysthemic said:
Adaptec Hardware RAID 5 3210s.I'll take a look at Storage Manager.I just
read about DiskAlert,but it looks like
it has been discontinued.The article sounded good,but not showing up on the
makers site isn't very trust inspiring.
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Looks like Storage Manager is available for it for just about everything
but Win2k3 server


-WD
 
Adysthemic said:
Adaptec Hardware RAID 5 3210s.I'll take a look at Storage Manager.I just
read about DiskAlert,but it looks like
it has been discontinued.The article sounded good,but not showing up on the
makers site isn't very trust inspiring.
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Unless in my haste,I misunderstood,Storage Mgr is not quite
what I am looking for.I would like a windows app that duplicates "hit ctrl
a" at boot to see the condition of the drive array.You see each disk as
optimal or impacted.Another
stupid question here,if it is called a "hotswapable" drive array
and you have to take the system offline to rebuild the array,what good is
"hotswap" anyhoo am I just missing something?Can I put a fourth drive in the
array to "auto" rebuild with no down time?,tnx,Adysthemic
 
Adysthemic said:
Unless in my haste,I misunderstood,Storage Mgr is not quite
what I am looking for.I would like a windows app that duplicates "hit ctrl
a" at boot to see the condition of the drive array.You see each disk as
optimal or impacted.Another
stupid question here,if it is called a "hotswapable" drive array
and you have to take the system offline to rebuild the array,what good is
"hotswap" anyhoo am I just missing something?Can I put a fourth drive in the
array to "auto" rebuild with no down time?,tnx,Adysthemic
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In your testing of Storage manager, what feature did you find to be missing?


-WD
 
Will Dormann said:
In your testing of Storage manager, what feature did you find to be missing?


-WD
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Will,
I spoke in haste.I went through the .pdfs in your link to adaptec,and it is
indeed what I needed,thanks
 
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