Concept Guide

Prole Name Description
• Auto Import of foreign cong: PERC9 controllers supports enhanced auto import of foreign cong without
requiring user interactions. This is ideal in a headless server environment. This feature enables PERC
controller to auto import foreign cong, when there is an existing conguration.
• ControllerBootMode: PERC9 controllers supports setting controller boot mode. This is ideal in a headless
server environment. This feature enables PERC controller to either wait for user interaction on error, or to
continue boot on error, or headless mode continue boot on error or boot to headless safe mode. In each
boot mode, the PERC either ignores or takes default action and continues on error.
• 4K sector drives: PERC 9 is introducing support for hard-disk drives with 4k sector size. The purpose of
this feature is to allow customers to use new 4k sector HDDs, which allow faster data transfer using fewer
commands.
• RAID real-time conguration support: Conguration jobs are run in real-time, host reboot is not required.
• Changes the controller mode from RAID to HBA or HBA to RAID.
Record Log The DCIM Record Log Prole provides the management capabilities to represent logs of a managed system
element.
Role Based Authorization The DCIM Role Based Authorization Prole describes the properties and interfaces for running system
management tasks related to the authorization.
Sensors The DCIM Sensors Prole describes the properties and interfaces for running system management tasks
related to the management of sensors within a system.
Simple ID Management The DCIM Simple Identity Management Prole describes the properties and interfaces for running system
management tasks related to the management of accounts and identities.
Simple Raid The prole extends the management capabilities to represent the conguration of RAID storage. The RAID
storage is modeled as collections of attributes for the storage adaptors, physical disks, logical disks, end
enclosures, and parent-child relationships between the collections.
Service Processor The DCIM Service Processor Prole describes the properties and interfaces for running system management
tasks related to the management of the service processor and iDRAC.
Simple NIC
The Simple NIC Prole extends the management capabilities of referencing proles by adding the capability to
represent the conguration of NIC network controllers.
Virtual Address Management is supported by setting attributes of VirtMacAddr, VirtIscsiMacAddr,
VirtFIPMacAddr, VirtWWN, VirtWWPN, and VirtualizationMode.
Software Inventory The Dell Software Inventory Prole extends the management capabilities of referencing proles by adding the
capability to represent the software inventory of system.
Software Update
The Software Update Prole extends the management capabilities of referencing proles by adding the
capability to update platform rmware or software.
DCIM_SoftwareInstallationService: installfromRepository and DCIM_SoftwareInstallationService:
GetRepoBasedUpdateList allows updates from update repository.
Solid-state Drive (SSD) wear-level odometer: Ability to provide lifetime/wear out of SSD drives attached to
PERC controller.
DIF drive reporting: PowerEdge RAID Controller 9 (PERC 9) is adding support for PI (Protection Information)
drives. These protection elds are known as DIF (Data Integrity Fields) and drives supporting PI are also known
as DIF drives. The data integrity eld provides additional data robustness by providing CRC such as data
validation at every level in the RAID stack.
System Info The DCIM System Info Prole describes the properties and interfaces for running system management tasks
related to the management of the host system.
System QuickSync The DCIM System QuickSync prole document describes the properties and interfaces used for system
management tasks related to the management of QuickSync or NFC devices within a system.
USB device The DCIM USB Device prole describes the properties and interfaces for the system management tasks
related to the USB devices within a system.
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