Monitoring FC HBA devices using RACADM......................................................................................................207
Inventorying and monitoring SFP Transceiver devices..........................................................................................207
Monitoring SFP Transceiver devices using web interface..............................................................................208
Monitoring SFP Transceiver devices using RACADM......................................................................................208
Telemetry Streaming......................................................................................................................................................208
Serial Data Capture........................................................................................................................................................ 209
Dynamic configuration of virtual addresses, initiator, and storage target settings.........................................210
Supported cards for IO Identity Optimization.....................................................................................................210
Supported NIC firmware versions for IO Identity Optimization..................................................................... 212
Virtual or Remote assigned Address and Persistence Policy behavior when iDRAC is set to
Remote-Assigned Address mode or Console mode...................................................................................... 212
System behavior for FlexAddress and IO Identity..............................................................................................213
Enabling or disabling IO Identity Optimization.................................................................................................... 214
SSD Wear Threshold................................................................................................................................................. 214
Configuring persistence policy settings............................................................................................................... 215
Chapter 17: Managing storage devices ...................................................................................... 219
Understanding RAID concepts.....................................................................................................................................220
What is RAID............................................................................................................................................................... 221
Organizing data storage for availability and performance.............................................................................. 222
Choosing RAID levels .............................................................................................................................................. 222
Comparing RAID level performance......................................................................................................................228
Supported controllers.................................................................................................................................................... 229
Supported enclosures.................................................................................................................................................... 230
Summary of supported features for storage devices............................................................................................ 230
Inventorying and monitoring storage devices..........................................................................................................235
Monitoring storage devices using web interface.............................................................................................. 236
Monitoring storage devices using RACADM...................................................................................................... 236
Monitoring backplane using iDRAC settings utility........................................................................................... 236
Viewing storage device topology................................................................................................................................ 236
Managing physical disks................................................................................................................................................ 237
Assigning or unassigning physical disk as global hot spare............................................................................. 237
Converting a physical disk to RAID or non-RAID mode................................................................................... 238
Erasing physical disks...............................................................................................................................................239
Erasing SED/ISE device data.................................................................................................................................239
Rebuild Physical Disk.................................................................................................................................................241
Managing virtual disks.................................................................................................................................................... 241
Creating virtual disks.................................................................................................................................................241
Editing virtual disk cache policies..........................................................................................................................243
Deleting virtual disks.................................................................................................................................................244
Checking virtual disk consistency......................................................................................................................... 244
Initializing virtual disks..............................................................................................................................................244
Encrypting virtual disks............................................................................................................................................245
Assigning or unassigning dedicated hot spares................................................................................................. 245
Managing virtual disks using web interface........................................................................................................ 247
Managing virtual disks using RACADM................................................................................................................248
RAID Configuration Features....................................................................................................................................... 249
Managing controllers..................................................................................................................................................... 250
Configuring controller properties.......................................................................................................................... 250
Importing or auto importing foreign configuration............................................................................................253
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