Monitoring FC HBA devices using RACADM........................................................................................................... 198
Inventorying and monitoring SFP Transceiver devices.................................................................................................198
Monitoring SFP Transceiver devices using web interface..................................................................................... 198
Monitoring SFP Transceiver devices using RACADM.............................................................................................199
Telemetry Streaming......................................................................................................................................................... 199
Serial Data Capture...........................................................................................................................................................200
Dynamic configuration of virtual addresses, initiator, and storage target settings...................................................201
Supported cards for IO Identity Optimization..........................................................................................................202
Supported NIC firmware versions for IO Identity Optimization............................................................................ 203
Virtual or Remote assigned Address and Persistence Policy behavior when iDRAC is set to Remote-
Assigned Address mode or Console mode...........................................................................................................203
System behavior for FlexAddress and IO Identity...................................................................................................205
Enabling or disabling IO Identity Optimization......................................................................................................... 205
SSD Wear Threshold...................................................................................................................................................206
Configuring persistence policy settings....................................................................................................................206
Chapter 15: Managing storage devices ..........................................................................................210
Understanding RAID concepts..........................................................................................................................................211
What is RAID..................................................................................................................................................................211
Organizing data storage for availability and performance...................................................................................... 212
Choosing RAID levels ..................................................................................................................................................213
Comparing RAID level performance...........................................................................................................................218
Supported controllers........................................................................................................................................................219
Supported enclosures.......................................................................................................................................................220
Summary of supported features for storage devices...................................................................................................220
Inventorying and monitoring storage devices................................................................................................................224
Monitoring storage devices using web interface.................................................................................................... 224
Monitoring storage devices using RACADM........................................................................................................... 225
Monitoring backplane using iDRAC settings utility..................................................................................................225
Viewing storage device topology.................................................................................................................................... 225
Managing physical disks................................................................................................................................................... 225
Assigning or unassigning physical disk as global hot spare.................................................................................... 226
Converting a physical disk to RAID or non-RAID mode..........................................................................................226
Erasing physical disks..................................................................................................................................................227
Erasing SED device data............................................................................................................................................ 228
Rebuild Physical Disk...................................................................................................................................................229
Managing virtual disks...................................................................................................................................................... 229
Creating virtual disks...................................................................................................................................................230
Editing virtual disk cache policies............................................................................................................................... 231
Deleting virtual disks....................................................................................................................................................232
Checking virtual disk consistency..............................................................................................................................232
Initializing virtual disks.................................................................................................................................................232
Encrypting virtual disks...............................................................................................................................................233
Assigning or unassigning dedicated hot spares....................................................................................................... 233
Managing virtual disks using web interface............................................................................................................. 235
Managing virtual disks using RACADM.................................................................................................................... 236
RAID Configuration Features........................................................................................................................................... 237
Managing controllers........................................................................................................................................................ 238
Configuring controller properties...............................................................................................................................238
Importing or auto importing foreign configuration..................................................................................................240
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