Monitoring SFP Transceiver devices using web interface..............................................................................207
Monitoring SFP Transceiver devices using RACADM......................................................................................207
Telemetry Streaming......................................................................................................................................................207
Serial Data Capture........................................................................................................................................................ 208
Dynamic configuration of virtual addresses, initiator, and storage target settings........................................209
Supported cards for IO Identity Optimization....................................................................................................209
Supported NIC firmware versions for IO Identity Optimization...................................................................... 211
Virtual or Remote assigned Address and Persistence Policy behavior when iDRAC is set to
Remote-Assigned Address mode or Console mode....................................................................................... 211
System behavior for FlexAddress and IO Identity..............................................................................................212
Enabling or disabling IO Identity Optimization.................................................................................................... 213
SSD Wear Threshold................................................................................................................................................. 214
Configuring persistence policy settings................................................................................................................214
Chapter 17: Managing storage devices ...................................................................................... 218
Understanding RAID concepts..................................................................................................................................... 219
What is RAID.............................................................................................................................................................. 220
Organizing data storage for availability and performance............................................................................... 221
Choosing RAID levels ............................................................................................................................................... 221
Comparing RAID level performance......................................................................................................................227
Supported controllers.................................................................................................................................................... 228
Supported enclosures.................................................................................................................................................... 229
Summary of supported features for storage devices............................................................................................ 229
Inventorying and monitoring storage devices.......................................................................................................... 234
Monitoring storage devices using web interface.............................................................................................. 235
Monitoring storage devices using RACADM...................................................................................................... 235
Monitoring backplane using iDRAC settings utility........................................................................................... 235
Viewing storage device topology................................................................................................................................ 235
Managing physical disks................................................................................................................................................ 236
Assigning or unassigning physical disk as global hot spare.............................................................................236
Converting a physical disk to RAID or non-RAID mode................................................................................... 237
Erasing physical disks...............................................................................................................................................238
Erasing SED/ISE device data.................................................................................................................................238
Rebuild Physical Disk................................................................................................................................................240
Managing virtual disks................................................................................................................................................... 240
Creating virtual disks................................................................................................................................................240
Editing virtual disk cache policies..........................................................................................................................242
Deleting virtual disks.................................................................................................................................................242
Checking virtual disk consistency......................................................................................................................... 243
Initializing virtual disks..............................................................................................................................................243
Encrypting virtual disks............................................................................................................................................244
Assigning or unassigning dedicated hot spares................................................................................................. 244
Managing virtual disks using web interface........................................................................................................246
Managing virtual disks using RACADM................................................................................................................ 247
RAID Configuration Features....................................................................................................................................... 248
Managing controllers......................................................................................................................................................249
Configuring controller properties.......................................................................................................................... 249
Importing or auto importing foreign configuration............................................................................................252
Clearing foreign configuration................................................................................................................................253
Resetting controller configuration........................................................................................................................ 254
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