Users Guide

Supported NIC firmware versions for I/O Identity Optimization..............................................203
Virtual/Flex Address and Persistence Policy behavior when iDRAC is set to Flex Address
mode or Console mode.............................................................................................................204
System behavior for FlexAddress and I/O Identity.................................................................... 205
Enabling or disabling I/O Identity Optimization........................................................................206
Configuring persistence policy settings.....................................................................................207
13 Managing storage devices.............................................................................211
Understanding RAID concepts......................................................................................................... 212
What is RAID?...............................................................................................................................213
Organizing data storage for availability and performance........................................................ 214
Choosing RAID levels ................................................................................................................. 214
Comparing RAID level performance...........................................................................................221
Supported controllers.......................................................................................................................223
Supported RAID controllers........................................................................................................223
Supported non-RAID controllers............................................................................................... 223
Supported enclosures.......................................................................................................................223
Summary of supported features for storage devices...................................................................... 223
Inventorying and monitoring storage devices.................................................................................226
Monitoring storage devices using web interface.......................................................................226
Monitoring storage devices using RACADM.............................................................................. 227
Monitoring backplane using iDRAC settings utility....................................................................227
Viewing storage device topology.....................................................................................................227
Managing physical disks....................................................................................................................227
Assigning or unassigning physical disk as global hot spare...................................................... 228
Converting a physical disk to RAID or non-RAID mode........................................................... 229
Managing virtual disks...................................................................................................................... 230
Creating virtual disks...................................................................................................................230
Editing virtual disk cache policies...............................................................................................232
Deleting virtual disks................................................................................................................... 233
Checking virtual disk consistency.............................................................................................. 233
Initializing virtual disks.................................................................................................................233
Encrypting virtual disks............................................................................................................... 234
Assigning or unassigning dedicated hot spares.........................................................................235
Managing virtual disks using web interface............................................................................... 235
Managing virtual disks using RACADM.......................................................................................236
Managing controllers........................................................................................................................236
Configuring controller properties...............................................................................................237
Importing or auto importing foreign configuration..................................................................240
Clearing foreign configuration................................................................................................... 241
Resetting controller configuration.............................................................................................242
Switching the controller mode.................................................................................................. 243
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