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Preface: Dell OpenManage� Storage Consolidation User's Guide

	About This Guide		Notes, Notices, Cautions, and Warnings
	Other Documents You May Need		Typographical Conventions

About This Guide

This guide is intended for anyone who uses Dell OpenManage Storage Consolidation. The guide can be used by both first-time and experienced computer users who want to learn about the features and operation of their software. The sections are summarized as follows:

• Introduction — Overview of software features and benefits
   
• Installing and Uninstalling Dell OpenManage Storage Consolidation — Description of installation and removal procedures
   
• Using Dell OpenManage Storage Consolidation Administrator  — Procedures on using the Storage Consolidation graphical user interface
    
• Using Dell OpenManage Storage Consolidation StorageC Utility  — Procedures on using the Storage Consolidation command line interface
    
• Frequently Asked Questions — Common problems and resolutions
   
• Getting Help — Lists contact information for Dell worldwide
   
• Glossary — Definitions of terms, acronyms, and abbreviations used in this guide

Other Documents You May Need

• Refer to the Dell PowerVault Systems Storage Area Network (SAN) Administrator's Guide for information on installing and configuring SAN devices.
   
• To ensure that proper component revision requirements are met, refer to the Dell PowerVault Systems Storage Area Network (SAN) Version 4.0 Revision Compatibility Guide. 
   
• Operating system documentation is included with server systems if you ordered the operating system software from Dell. This documentation describes how to install (if necessary), configure, and use the operating system software.
   
• Technical information files—sometimes called "readme" files—may be installed on the hard-disk drive along with the software to provide last-minute updates about technical changes to the software or advanced technical reference material intended for experienced users or technicians.
   
• Information updates are sometimes included with the software to describe changes to the system or software. Always read these updates before consulting any other documentation because the updates often contain information that supersedes the information in the other documents.

Notes, Notices, Cautions, and Warnings

Throughout this guide, blocks of text may be accompanied by an icon and printed in bold type or in italic type. These blocks are notes, notices, cautions, and warnings, and they are used as follows:

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your system.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, may result in minor or moderate injury.

WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in death or serious bodily injury.

Typographical Conventions

The following list defines (where appropriate) and illustrates typographical conventions used as visual cues for specific elements of text throughout this document:

• Interface components are window titles, button and icon names, menu names and selections, and other options that appear on the monitor screen or display. They are presented in bold.

Example: Click OK.

• Keycaps are labels that appear on the keys on a keyboard. They are enclosed in angle brackets.

Example: <Enter>

• Key combinations are series of keys to be pressed simultaneously (unless otherwise indicated) to perform a single function.

Example: <Ctrl><Alt><Enter>

• Commands presented in lowercase bold are for reference purposes only and are not intended to be typed when referenced.

Example: "Use the format command to . . . ."

In contrast, commands presented in the Courier New font are part of an instruction and intended to be typed.

Example: "Type format a: to format the diskette in drive A."

• Filenames and directory names are presented in lowercase bold.

Examples: autoexec.bat and c:\windows

• Syntax lines consist of a command and all its possible parameters. Commands are presented in lowercase bold; variable parameters (those for which you substitute a value) are presented in lowercase italics; constant parameters are presented in lowercase bold. The brackets indicate items that are optional.

Example: del [drive:] [path] filename [/p]

• Command lines consist of a command and may include one or more of the command’s possible parameters. Command lines are presented in the Courier New font.

Example: del c:\myfile.doc

• Screen text is a message or text that you are instructed to type as part of a command (referred to as a command line). Screen text is presented in the Courier New font.

Example: The following message appears on your screen:

No boot device available

Example: "Type md c:\programs and press <Enter>."

• Variables are placeholders for which you substitute a value. They are presented in italics.

Example: DIMM_x (where x represents the DIMM socket designation).

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