Inventorying and monitoring network devices............................................................................................................... 169
Monitoring network devices using web interface....................................................................................................169
Monitoring network devices using RACADM........................................................................................................... 170
Inventorying and monitoring FC HBA devices................................................................................................................170
Monitoring FC HBA devices using web interface.................................................................................................... 170
Monitoring FC HBA devices using RACADM........................................................................................................... 170
Dynamic configuration of virtual addresses, initiator, and storage target settings................................................... 170
Supported cards for IO Identity Optimization........................................................................................................... 171
Supported NIC firmware versions for IO Identity Optimization............................................................................. 172
Virtual or Flex Address and Persistence Policy behavior when iDRAC is set to Flex Address mode or
Console mode........................................................................................................................................................... 172
System behavior for FlexAddress and IO Identity....................................................................................................173
Enabling or disabling IO Identity Optimization.......................................................................................................... 174
Configuring persistence policy settings.....................................................................................................................175
Chapter 13: Managing storage devices........................................................................................... 178
Understanding RAID concepts......................................................................................................................................... 179
RAID............................................................................................................................................................................... 179
Organizing data storage for availability and performance...................................................................................... 180
Choosing RAID levels ...................................................................................................................................................181
Comparing RAID level performance...........................................................................................................................186
Supported controllers........................................................................................................................................................ 187
Supported enclosures........................................................................................................................................................187
Summary of supported features for storage devices................................................................................................... 188
Inventorying and monitoring storage devices................................................................................................................ 190
Monitoring storage devices using web interface.....................................................................................................190
Monitoring storage devices using RACADM............................................................................................................ 190
Monitoring backplane using iDRAC settings utility................................................................................................... 191
Viewing storage device topology......................................................................................................................................191
Managing physical disks.....................................................................................................................................................191
Assigning or unassigning physical disk as global hot spare......................................................................................191
Converting a physical disk to RAID or non-RAID mode.......................................................................................... 192
Managing virtual disks....................................................................................................................................................... 193
Creating virtual disks....................................................................................................................................................193
Editing virtual disk cache policies...............................................................................................................................194
Deleting virtual disks.................................................................................................................................................... 195
Checking virtual disk consistency.............................................................................................................................. 196
Initializing virtual disks..................................................................................................................................................196
Encrypting virtual disks............................................................................................................................................... 196
Assigning or unassigning dedicated hot spares........................................................................................................197
Managing virtual disks using web interface.............................................................................................................. 197
Managing virtual disks using RACADM..................................................................................................................... 198
Managing controllers......................................................................................................................................................... 198
Configuring controller properties............................................................................................................................... 199
Importing or auto importing foreign configuration...................................................................................................201
Clearing foreign configuration....................................................................................................................................202
Resetting controller configuration.............................................................................................................................203
Switching the controller mode...................................................................................................................................203
12 Gbps SAS HBA adapter operations......................................................................................................................204
Monitoring predictive failure analysis on drives.......................................................................................................205
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