Areca 24/4 Internal/External Port Pcie 3.0 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA Raid Controller 2Gb Cache - Manual (Page 40)

HARDWARE INSTALLATION
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Note:
The capacity of the replacement drives must be at least as
large as the capacity of the other drives in the raid set. Drives
of insufficient capacity will be failed immediately by the RAID
controller without starting the “Automatic Data Rebuild”.
2.7 Summary of the installation
The flow chart below describes the installation procedures for
12Gb/s SAS RAID controllers. These procedures include hard-
ware installation, the creation and configuration of a RAID volume
through the McBIOS/McRAID manager, OS installation and installa-
tion of 12Gb/s SAS RAID controller software.
Configuration Utility Operating System Supported
McBIOS RAID Manager OS-Independent
McRAID Storage Manager
(Via Ethernet port)
OS-Independent
McRAID Storage Manager
(Via ArcHTTP proxy server)
Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and
Mac OS X
ArcHTTP Proxy Server
Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and
Mac OS X
CLI Utility
Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and
Mac OS X
SNMP Manager Console Integration Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris
SAP Monitor (Single Admin Portal to scan
for multiple RAID units in the network,
via ArcHTTP proxy server)
Windows
The table below shows the software components that configure and
monitor the 12Gb/s SAS RAID controllers.