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Inventorying and monitoring storage devices
Viewing system inventory
Updating device rmware
Monitoring predictive failure analysis on drives
Blinking or unblinking component LEDs
Monitoring predictive failure analysis on drives
Storage management supports Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) on physical disks that are SMART-enabled.
SMART performs predictive failure analysis on each disk and sends alerts if a disk failure is predicted. The controllers check physical disks
for failure predictions and, if found, pass this information to iDRAC. iDRAC immediately logs an alert.
Controller operations in non-RAID - HBA mode
If the controller is in non-RAID mode (HBA mode), then:
• Virtual disks or hot spares are not available.
• Security state of the controller is disabled.
• All physical disks are in non-RAID mode.
You can perform the following operations if the controller is in non-RAID mode:
• Blink/unblink the physical disk.
• Congure all properties including the following:
• Load balanced mode
• Check consistency mode
• Patrol read mode
• Copyback mode
• Controller boot mode
• Enhanced auto import foreign conguration
• Rebuild rate
• Check consistency rate
• Reconstruct rate
• BGI rate
• Enclosure or backplane mode
• Patrol read uncongured areas
• View all properties that are applicable to a RAID controller expect for virtual disks.
• Clear foreign conguration
NOTE
: If an operation is not supported in non-RAID mode, an error message is displayed.
You cannot monitor the enclosure temperature probes, fans, and power supplies when the controller is in non-RAID mode.
Running RAID conguration jobs on multiple storage
controllers
While performing operations on more than two storage controllers from any supported iDRAC interface, make sure to:
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