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Advanced Functions
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Step4: At the DISKPART prompt, type: shrink desired=2000 (If you do not set
a size, such as the above example for 2 GB, it will shrink the partition
by the maximum amount possible. You may use shrink querymax
command to know the maximum space that you can shrink.)
When the shrink command is done, you should receive a message stating
that Diskpart had successfully shrunk the volume. The partition space
should be subtractive to the existing drive while maintaining the data on
the volume, and there will be unallocated space created.
On Windows Vista, you can also use Computer Management ÑŠ Disk
Management GUI to do partition expansion and shrinking.
Please follow the links below and enter “diskpart” to find more
information:
Microsoft Web Site Links:
Search link:
http://search.microsoft.com/?mkt=en-US
Download diskpart utility link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0fd9788a-
5d64-4f57-949f-ef62de7ab1ae&displaylang=en
5.6 RAIDGuard Central
5.6.1 Introduction
RAIDGuard Central is a software utility that allows you to remotely monitor
multiple RAID systems located at different networks, and to consolidate
event logs from these RAID systems at a single console. It also offers smart
discovery of RAID systems and real-time event notification by MSN
messages. The features and benefits of RAIDGuard Central are
summarized as below:
• Remote monitoring multiple RAID systems
With RAIDGuard Central, you can watch the status of multiple RAID
systems by single GUI console, which can be launched either locally or
remotely by a web browser. You can quickly know the status of all RAID
systems simply at one glance, and when there is an event happening to
a RAID system, you can launch the web GUI of the RAID system by
RAIDGuard Central to know further details of the RAID system or conduct
maintenance tasks. This helps you quickly locate the RAID systems in
trouble and frees you from checking the GUI of each RAID system.
Note
Rebooting the host computers might be needed so as to make it
effective.