Reference Guide

● Get and set any configurable iDRAC attribute
● Manage iDRAC user accounts
RAID configuration
The RAID configuration feature is used to manage the properties and capabilities of the RAID storage. The RAID storage is
modeled using a collection of attributes, where there are collections for the enclosures, storage adapters, logical disks, physical
disk drives, and PCIeSSD devices. Additionally, there is a configuration service that contains all the methods used to configure
the RAID storage.
You can perform the following operations:
● Retrieve current configuration of RAID inventory.
● Delete all virtual disks and unassign all the hot spare physical disk drives.
● Prepare any foreign physical disk drives for inclusion in the local configuration.
● Manage hot spares.
● Manage keys for self-encrypting drives.
● Manage virtual disks. You can perform the following:
○ Create a single virtual disk. After the virtual disk is created, the FQDD of the virtual disk changes.
○ Initialize (fast or slow) the virtual disk using the physical disk drives attached to the PERC controller.
○ Delete a virtual disk from the PERC controller.
● Configure the following RAID attributes:
○ Virtual disks — Read Policy, Write Policy, and Disk Cache Policy
○ Controllers — Background Initialization Rate, Check Consistency Mode, Check Consistency Rate, Copy Back Mode,
Possible load balance modes, Patrol Read Mode, Rebuild Rate, and Reconstruction Rate.
● Change RAID-ready states of the physical disk drives.
● View PCIeSSD and extended card information.
● Reset PERC controller configuration.
● Import foreign configurations such that virtual disks are not lost after moving physical disks. The controllers provide support
for auto import of foreign configuration.
● Clear foreign configuration on physical disk drives attached to a controller.
● Set patrol read mode to avoid disk failures and data loss or corruption.
● Assign or unassign a global hot spare for a physical disk drive.
● Check the consistency of the redundancy information for redundant virtual disks.
● Cancel the check consistency operation that is in progress on a virtual disk.
● Blink or unblink the LEDs on the physical disk drives included in the virtual disk.
● Create, change, or delete the security key using the Local Key Management (LKM) feature on controllers that support
encryption of the drives.
NOTE:
On Dell’s 13th generation PowerEdge server, you can now perform all RAID configuration jobs in real-time without
rebooting the host.
For more information on RAID configuration, see the SimpleRaid profile document available at en.community.dell.com/
techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1906.dcim-library-profile.aspx. Also, see the iDRAC User’s Guide available at
dell.com/esmmanuals.
NIC configuration
Network Interface Controller (NIC) configuration feature is used to set up or modify configuration settings for supported NIC
cards (for example, Intel, QLogic, and Broadcom). These configuration settings can be set or updated both locally and remotely
using Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services.
The NICs supported by Lifecycle Controller provide an array of networking features converged into a single controller:
● Traditional NIC capabilities
● Internet Small Computer System Interface over Ethernet (iSCSI) capabilities
● Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capabilities
You can configure various device capabilities such as:
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Remote Services Features