Inventorying and monitoring FC HBA devices.......................................................................................................... 175
Monitoring FC HBA devices using web interface.............................................................................................. 175
Monitoring FC HBA devices using RACADM...................................................................................................... 175
Dynamic configuration of virtual addresses, initiator, and storage target settings.........................................175
Supported cards for IO Identity Optimization.....................................................................................................176
Supported NIC firmware versions for IO Identity Optimization......................................................................177
Virtual or Flex Address and Persistence Policy behavior when iDRAC is set to Flex Address mode
or Console mode.....................................................................................................................................................177
System behavior for FlexAddress and IO Identity..............................................................................................178
Enabling or disabling IO Identity Optimization.................................................................................................... 179
Configuring persistence policy settings............................................................................................................... 180
Chapter 13: Managing storage devices....................................................................................... 183
Understanding RAID concepts..................................................................................................................................... 184
RAID.............................................................................................................................................................................. 185
Organizing data storage for availability and performance............................................................................... 186
Choosing RAID levels ............................................................................................................................................... 186
Comparing RAID level performance...................................................................................................................... 192
Supported controllers..................................................................................................................................................... 193
Supported enclosures..................................................................................................................................................... 194
Summary of supported features for storage devices............................................................................................. 194
Inventorying and monitoring storage devices...........................................................................................................196
Monitoring storage devices using web interface............................................................................................... 196
Monitoring storage devices using RACADM....................................................................................................... 196
Monitoring backplane using iDRAC settings utility............................................................................................ 197
Viewing storage device topology................................................................................................................................. 197
Managing physical disks................................................................................................................................................. 197
Assigning or unassigning physical disk as global hot spare..............................................................................197
Converting a physical disk to RAID or non-RAID mode....................................................................................198
Managing virtual disks.................................................................................................................................................... 199
Creating virtual disks................................................................................................................................................200
Editing virtual disk cache policies.......................................................................................................................... 201
Deleting virtual disks................................................................................................................................................ 202
Checking virtual disk consistency......................................................................................................................... 202
Initializing virtual disks............................................................................................................................................. 202
Encrypting virtual disks............................................................................................................................................203
Assigning or unassigning dedicated hot spares................................................................................................. 203
Managing virtual disks using web interface........................................................................................................203
Managing virtual disks using RACADM................................................................................................................204
Managing controllers..................................................................................................................................................... 205
Configuring controller properties.......................................................................................................................... 205
Importing or auto importing foreign configuration............................................................................................208
Clearing foreign configuration............................................................................................................................... 209
Resetting controller configuration.........................................................................................................................210
Switching the controller mode............................................................................................................................... 210
12 Gbps SAS HBA adapter operations...................................................................................................................211
Monitoring predictive failure analysis on drives..................................................................................................212
Controller operations in non-RAID - HBA mode.................................................................................................212
Running RAID configuration jobs on multiple storage controllers..................................................................212
Managing PCIe SSDs...................................................................................................................................................... 213
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