Users Guide

Setting warning threshold for power consumption using web interface....................................................................168
Executing power control operations................................................................................................................................168
Executing power control operations using web interface.......................................................................................... 168
Executing power control operations using RACADM................................................................................................ 169
Power capping................................................................................................................................................................169
Power capping in Blade servers................................................................................................................................ 169
Viewing and conguring power cap policy................................................................................................................ 169
Conguring power supply options................................................................................................................................... 170
Conguring power supply options using web interface.............................................................................................. 171
Conguring power supply options using RACADM.....................................................................................................171
Conguring power supply options using iDRAC settings utility...................................................................................171
Enabling or disabling power button.................................................................................................................................. 171
12 Inventorying, monitoring, and conguring network devices........................................ 172
Inventorying and monitoring network devices................................................................................................................. 172
Monitoring network devices using web interface...................................................................................................... 172
Monitoring network devices using RACADM.............................................................................................................173
Inventorying and monitoring FC HBA devices................................................................................................................. 173
Monitoring FC HBA devices using web interface.......................................................................................................173
Monitoring FC HBA devices using RACADM.............................................................................................................173
Dynamic conguration of virtual addresses, initiator, and storage target settings............................................................173
Supported cards for I/O Identity Optimization.......................................................................................................... 174
Supported NIC rmware versions for I/O Identity Optimization................................................................................ 175
Virtual/Flex Address and Persistence Policy behavior when iDRAC is set to Flex Address mode or Console mode...175
System behavior for FlexAddress and I/O Identity.................................................................................................... 176
Enabling or disabling I/O Identity Optimization..........................................................................................................177
Conguring persistence policy settings..................................................................................................................... 178
13 Managing storage devices...........................................................................................181
Understanding RAID concepts........................................................................................................................................ 182
What is RAID?.......................................................................................................................................................... 182
Organizing data storage for availability and performance.......................................................................................... 183
Choosing RAID levels ............................................................................................................................................... 184
Comparing RAID level performance.......................................................................................................................... 189
Supported controllers..................................................................................................................................................... 190
Supported RAID controllers...................................................................................................................................... 190
Supported non-RAID controllers................................................................................................................................191
Supported enclosures...................................................................................................................................................... 191
Summary of supported features for storage devices....................................................................................................... 191
Inventorying and monitoring storage devices.................................................................................................................. 193
Monitoring storage devices using web interface....................................................................................................... 193
Monitoring storage devices using RACADM..............................................................................................................194
Monitoring backplane using iDRAC settings utility.................................................................................................... 194
Viewing storage device topology.....................................................................................................................................194
Managing physical disks..................................................................................................................................................194
Assigning or unassigning physical disk as global hot spare.........................................................................................194
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