Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Version 7.2 User manual

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Contents 3
Contents
1Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
What’s New in this Release? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Before Installing Storage Management
. . . . . . . . . 22
Version Requirements for Controller Firmware
and Drivers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Supported Controllers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Supported Enclosures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Support for Disk and Volume Management
. . . . . . . 24
2 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Launching Storage Management . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Microsoft Windows
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Linux and any Remote System
. . . . . . . . . . . 26
User Privileges
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Using the Graphical User Interface
. . . . . . . . . . . 27
Storage Object
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Health Subtab
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Information/Configuration Subtab
. . . . . . . . . 27
Drop-down Menus and Wizards
for Running Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using the Storage Management Command Line
Interface
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Displaying the Online Help
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4 Contents
Common Storage Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3 Understanding RAID Concepts . . . . . . . 31
What Is RAID? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Hardware and Software RAID
. . . . . . . . . . . 31
RAID Concepts
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
RAID Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Organizing Data Storage for Availability
and Performance
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Choosing RAID Levels and Concatenation . . . . . . . 34
Concatenation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
RAID Level 0 (Striping) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
RAID Level 1 (Mirroring)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
RAID Level 5 (Striping with distributed parity)
. . . 39
RAID Level 6 (Striping with additional
distributed parity) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
RAID Level 50 (Striping over RAID 5 sets) . . . . . 42
RAID Level 60 (Striping over RAID 6 sets)
. . . . . 44
RAID Level 10 (Striping over mirror sets)
. . . . . . 46
RAID Level 1-Concatenated
(Concatenated mirror) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Comparing RAID Level and Concatenation
Performance
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
No-RAID
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4 Quick Access to Storage Status
and Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Storage Dashboard and Storage Health. . . . . . . . . 53
Contents 5
Storage Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Hot Spare Protection Policy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Select Report
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Storage Component Severity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Storage Properties and Current Activity
. . . . . . . . 55
Alerts or Events
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Monitoring Disk Reliability on RAID Controllers . . . . 56
Using Alarms to Detect Failures
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Using Enclosure Temperature Probes
. . . . . . . . . . 57
Rescan to Update Storage Configuration Changes . . . 57
Time Delay in Displaying Configuration Changes
. . . 58
5 PCI Express Solid-State Device
Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
What is PCIe SSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
PCIe SSD Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
PCIe Sub System Properties
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
PCIe Extender Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Physical Device Properties
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Physical Device Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Blink and Unblink
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Full Initialization
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Prepare to Remove
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
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Export Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
PCIe SSD Sub System Health
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Backplanes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Backplane Firmware Version
. . . . . . . . . . . . 64
6 Storage Information and
Global Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Storage Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Global Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Global Rescan
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Enable/Disable Smart Thermal Shutdown
. . . . . 66
Storage Controllers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Storage Components
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
7 Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
What is a Controller?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
RAID Controller Technology: SCSI, SATA, ATA,
and SAS
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
RAID Controller Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Controller-supported RAID Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Controller-supported Stripe Sizes
. . . . . . . . . . . . 74
RAID Controller Read, Write, Cache, and
Disk Cache Policy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Read Policy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Write Policy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Cache Policy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
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Disk Cache Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Background Initialization on PERC Controllers
. . . . . 78
Non-RAID Controller Description
. . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Firmware/Driver Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Firmware/Driver Properties
. . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Controller Health
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Controller Severity
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Controller Information
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Controller Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Controller Properties and Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Controller Properties
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Controller Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Available Reports
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Set Rebuild Rate
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Reset Configuration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Export Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Foreign Configuration Operations
. . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Foreign Configuration Properties
. . . . . . . . . . 98
Importing Foreign Configurations
. . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Importing/Recovering Foreign Configurations . . . . . 102
Clear Foreign Configuration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Physical Disks in Foreign Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . . 104
Set Background Initialization Rate
. . . . . . . . . . . 109
Set Check Consistency Rate
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
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Set Reconstruct Rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Redundant Path Configuration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Clearing the Redundant Path View
. . . . . . . . 115
Related Topics
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Set Patrol Read Mode
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Start and Stop Patrol Read
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Change Controller Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Manage Physical Disk Power
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Manage Preserved Cache
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Manage Preserved Cache
. . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Manage Encryption Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Encryption Key
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Creating an Encryption Key and
Enabling LKM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Manage CacheCade
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Creating a CacheCade
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Resizing the CacheCade
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Renaming the CacheCade . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Blinking and Unblinking the CacheCade
. . . . . 128
Deleting the CacheCade
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
CacheCade Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Convert to Non-RAID Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Convert to RAID Capable Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Patrol Read Report
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Check Consistency Report
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Slot Occupancy Report
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
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Physical Disk Firmware Version Report. . . . . . . . . 132
8 Enclosures and Backplanes . . . . . . . . . 135
Backplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Enclosures
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Enclosure Physical Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Enclosure Fans
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Enclosure Power Supplies
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Enclosure Temperature Probes . . . . . . . . . . 136
Enclosure Management Modules (EMMs)
. . . . . 137
SMART Thermal Shutdown
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Changing the Mode on 220S and 221S Enclosures . . . 138
Enclosure Management
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Enclosure and Backplane Health
. . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Enclosure and Backplane Status
. . . . . . . . . . 140
Enclosure and Backplane Information
. . . . . . . 140
Enclosure and Backplane Components . . . . . . 141
Enclosure and Backplane Properties and Tasks . . . . 141
Enclosure and Backplane Properties
. . . . . . . 141
Enclosure Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Available Reports
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Set Asset Data
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Set Temperature Probe Values
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
View Slot Occupancy Report
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
EMM Properties
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
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Fan Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Power Supply Properties
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Temperature Probe Properties and Tasks
. . . . . . . 157
Temperature Probe Properties and Tasks
. . . . 157
Set Temperature Probe Properties and Tasks
. . 159
9 Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Channel Redundancy and Thermal Shutdown . . . . 161
Creating a Channel-redundant Virtual Disk . . . . . . 161
Connector Health
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Connector Status
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Connector Information
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Connector Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Connector Properties and Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Connector Properties
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Connector Tasks: Rescan Connector
. . . . . . . 166
Connector Components
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Logical Connector Properties and Tasks
. . . . . . . 166
Logical Connector Properties
. . . . . . . . . . . 166
Path Health
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Clearing the Redundant Path View . . . . . . . . 167
Related Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Logical Connector Components
. . . . . . . . . 168
10 Tape Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Tape Drive Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
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11 RAID Controller Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Battery Properties and Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Battery Properties
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Battery Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
12 Physical Disks or Physical Devices. . . . 177
Guidelines to Replace a Physical Disk or
Physical Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Add a New Disk to Your System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
How to Avoid Removing the Wrong Disk
. . . . . . . . 179
Replacing a Physical Disk Receiving
SMART Alerts
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Other Disk Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Physical Disk or Physical Device Properties
and Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Physical Disk or Physical Device Properties
. . . . 181
Physical Disk or Physical Device Tasks
. . . . . . 187
Blink and Unblink (Physical Disk)
. . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Remove Dead Segments
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Prepare to Remove
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Rebuild
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Cancel Rebuild
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Assign and Unassign Global Hot Spare
. . . . . . . . . 190
Online and Offline
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
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Clear Physical Disk and Cancel Clear. . . . . . . . . 192
Revertible Hot Spare
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Instant Encrypt Erase
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Full Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Convert to RAID Capable Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Convert to Non-RAID Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
13 Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks . . . . 197
Virtual Disk Considerations for Controllers
. . . . 198
Virtual Disk Considerations for PERC S100,
S110, and S300 Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Virtual Disk Considerations on Linux
. . . . . . . 201
Number of Physical Disks per Virtual Disk . . . . 201
Maximum Number of Virtual Disks
per Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Calculation for Maximum Virtual Disk Size
and the Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard
. . . 202
Channel Redundant Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . 202
Creating Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Reconfiguring/Migrating Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . 204
Starting and Target RAID Levels for Virtual Disk
Reconfiguration and Capacity Expansion
. . . . . . . 204
Maintain Integrity of Redundant Virtual Disks
. . . . 207
Rebuilding Redundant Information
. . . . . . . . . . 208
Virtual Disk Bad Block Management
. . . . . . . . . 208
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What is a Virtual Disk Bad Block? . . . . . . . . . 208
Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Virtual Disk Properties and Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Virtual Disk Properties
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Virtual Disk Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . 219
Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard (Step 2)
. . . . . . 221
Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard
. . . . . . . . . . 222
Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard (Step 2) . . . . . 226
Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard (Step 3)
. . . . . 228
Span Edit
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Virtual Disk Task: Reconfigure (Step 1 of 3). . . . . . . 230
Virtual Disk Task: Reconfigure (Step 2 of 3)
. . . . . . . 232
Virtual Disk Task: Reconfigure (Step 3 of 3)
. . . . . . . 234
Slow and Fast Initialize
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Considerations for Fast Initialize
. . . . . . . . . . 234
Considerations for Slow Initialize
. . . . . . . . . 235
Formatting or Initializing a Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . 235
Virtual Disk Task: Delete
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Virtual Disk Task: Rename
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Virtual Disk Task: Change Policy
. . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Split Mirror
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Unmirror
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
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Assign and Unassign Dedicated Hot Spare . . . . . . 240
Virtual Disk Task: Replace Member Disk
(Step 1 of 2)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Virtual Disk Task: Replace Member Disk
(Step 2 of 2)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
14 Moving Physical and Virtual Disks
from One System to Another . . . . . . . . . 245
Required Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Migrating SAS Virtual Disks to Another System
. . . 246
15 Protecting Your Virtual Disk with
a Hot Spare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Understanding Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Setting Hot Spare Protection Policy
. . . . . . . . . . 247
Dedicated Hot Spare Protection Policy
. . . . . 248
Resetting the Hot Spare Protection Policy
. . . . 248
Global Hot Spare Protection Policy. . . . . . . . 249
Considerations for Hot Spare Protection
Policy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Considerations for Enclosure Affinity. . . . . . . 249
Considerations for Hot Spares on PERC 5/E,
PERC 5/i, PERC 6/E, PERC 6/I, and CERC 6/I
Controllers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Dedicated Hot Spare Considerations
. . . . . . . 251
Considerations for Hot Spares on S100,
and S300 Controllers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
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Size Requirements for Global Hot Spares on
S100, and S300 Controllers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Global Hot Spare Considerations on a SAS 6/iR . . . . 252
16 CacheCade Using Solid State
Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
17 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Common Troubleshooting Procedures . . . . . . . . . 257
Cables Attached Correctly
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Drivers and Firmware
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Isolate Hardware Problems
. . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Rescan to Update Information on
SCSI Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Replacing a Failed Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Replacing a Failed Physical Disk that is Part
of a Non-Redundant Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . 260
Recovering from Removing the Wrong
Physical Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Resolving Microsoft Windows Upgrade
Problems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Virtual Disk Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
A Rebuild Does Not Work
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
A Rebuild Completes with Errors . . . . . . . . . . 263
Cannot Create a Virtual Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . 263
A Virtual Disk of Minimum Size is Not Visible
to Windows Disk Management. . . . . . . . . . . 264
Virtual Disk Errors on Linux
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Problems Associated With Using the Same
Physical Disks for Both Redundant and
Non-Redundant Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . 265
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Specific Problem Situations and Solutions . . . . . . 265
Physical Disk is Offline or Displays an
Error Status
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Receive a “Bad Block” Alert with
“Replacement,” “Sense,” or “Medium”
Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Read and Write Operations Experience
Problems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
A Task Menu Option is Not Displayed . . . . . . 268
A Corrupt Disk or Drive Message Suggests
Running autocheck During a Reboot
. . . . . . . 268
Erroneous Status and Error Messages after
a Windows Hibernation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Storage Management May Delay Before
Updating Temperature Probe Status . . . . . . . 268
Storage Management May Delay Displaying
Storage Devices After Reboot
. . . . . . . . . . 269
You are Unable to Log into a Remote System. . . 269
Cannot Connect to Remote System Running
Windows Server 2003
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Reconfiguring a Virtual Disk Displays Error
in Mozilla Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Physical Disks Display Under Connector
Not Enclosure Tree Object . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
PCIe SSD Troubleshooting
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
(PCIe) Solid-State Drive (SSD) is not seen in
the operating system
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
PCIe SSD is not seen in disk management in
the operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
18 Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . 273
Why is a Rebuild not Working? . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Contents 17
How Can I Safely Remove or Replace a
Physical Disk?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
How do I Recover from Removing the Wrong
Physical Disk?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
How do I Identify the Firmware Version that
is installed?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Which Controllers do I Have? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
How do I Turn off an Alarm?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Which RAID level is Best for me?
. . . . . . . . . . . . 275
A Supported Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Supported Features on the PERC 5/ PERC 6/,
and CERC 6/I Controllers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Controller Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Battery Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Connector Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Physical Disk Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Virtual Disk Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Virtual Disk Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Supported RAID Levels
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Read, Write, Cache and Disk Cache Policy
. . . . 286
Enclosure Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Supported Features on the PERC Hardware
Controllers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Controller Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Battery Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Connector Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Physical Disk Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Virtual Disk Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
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Virtual Disk Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Supported RAID Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Read, Write, Cache and Disk Cache Policy
. . . . 300
Enclosure Support
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Supported Features on the SAS 5/iR, SAS 6/iR,
and PERC H200 Controllers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Controller Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Battery Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Connector Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Physical Disk Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Virtual Disk Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Supported RAID Levels
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Virtual Disk Specifications
. . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Read, Write, Cache and Disk Cache Policy. . . . 308
Enclosure Support
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Supported Features on the PERC S100, PERC S110,
and S300 Controllers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Controller Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Physical Disk Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Virtual Disk Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Virtual Disk Specifications
. . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Supported RAID Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Read, Write, Cache and Disk Cache Policy
. . . . 313
Enclosure Support
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Supported Features on the Non-RAID Controllers
. . 314
Controller Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Battery Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Connector Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Physical Disk Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Virtual Disk Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Enclosure Support
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Contents 19
Enclosure and Backplane Features . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Enclosure and Backplane Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . 319
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Maximum Supported Configuration
. . . . . . . . . . . 319
19 Determining the Health Status for
Storage Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Health Status Rollup: Battery is Charging
or Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Health Status Rollup: Physical Disks in a
Virtual Disk are Failed or Removed
. . . . . . . . . . . 322
Health Status Rollup: Physical Disks in a
Virtual Disk are Unsupported, Partially or
Permanently Degraded
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Health Status Rollup: All Physical Disks in a
Virtual Disk are in Foreign State
. . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Health Status Rollup: Some Physical Disks in a
Virtual Disk are in Foreign State
. . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Health Status Rollup: Virtual Disk is Degraded;
Physical Disks are Failed or Rebuilding
. . . . . . . . 324
Health Status Rollup: Virtual Disk is Failed. . . . . . . 325
Health Status Rollup: Unsupported Firmware
Version
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Health Status Rollup: Enclosure Power Supply
Failed or Power Connection Removed
. . . . . . . . . 326
Health Status Rollup: One Enclosure Fan is
Failed
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
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Health Status Rollup: One Enclosure EMM is
Failed
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Health Status Rollup: One Enclosure Temperature
Probe is Failed
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Health Status Rollup: Lost Both Power Connections
to the Enclosure
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Health Status Rollup: One or More Physical Disks
are Failed
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Health Status Rollup: Physical Disk is Rebuilding . . 330
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Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Version 7.2 User manual

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