Users Guide

Configuring Persistence Policy Settings....................................................................................200
13 Managing Storage Devices...........................................................................204
Understanding RAID Concepts........................................................................................................ 205
What Is RAID?..............................................................................................................................206
Organizing Data Storage For Availability And Performance......................................................207
Choosing RAID Levels ................................................................................................................207
Comparing RAID Level Performance......................................................................................... 214
Supported Controllers...................................................................................................................... 216
Supported RAID Controllers....................................................................................................... 216
Supported Non-RAID Controllers.............................................................................................. 216
Supported Enclosures.......................................................................................................................216
Summary of Supported Features for Storage Devices.................................................................... 216
Inventory and Monitoring Storage Devices......................................................................................219
Monitoring Storage Device Using Web Interface.......................................................................219
Monitoring Storage Device Using RACADM.............................................................................. 220
Monitoring Backplane Using iDRAC Settings Utility..................................................................220
Viewing Storage Device Topology...................................................................................................220
Managing Physical Disks...................................................................................................................220
Assigning or Unassigning Physical Disk as Global Hot spare....................................................220
Convert To RAID Capable Disk................................................................................................... 221
Convert To Non-RAID Disk........................................................................................................ 222
Managing Virtual Disks......................................................................................................................222
Creating Virtual Disks..................................................................................................................222
Editing Virtual Disk Cache Policies.............................................................................................224
Deleting Virtual Disks.................................................................................................................. 225
Checking Virtual Disk Consistency.............................................................................................225
Initializing Virtual Disks............................................................................................................... 226
Encrypting Virtual Disks.............................................................................................................. 227
Assigning or Unassigning Dedicated Hot Spares.......................................................................227
Managing Virtual Disks Using Web Interface............................................................................. 227
Managing Virtual Disks Using RACADM..................................................................................... 228
Managing Controllers....................................................................................................................... 228
Configuring Controller Properties..............................................................................................229
Importing or Auto Importing Foreign Configuration.................................................................232
Clearing Foreign Configuration..................................................................................................233
Resetting Controller Configuration............................................................................................234
12Gbps SAS HBA Adapter Operations........................................................................................ 235
Monitoring Predictive Failure Analysis On Drives...................................................................... 235
Controller Operations in Non-RAID (HBA) Mode......................................................................236
Running RAID Configuration Jobs On Multiple Storage Controllers....................................... 236
Managing PCIe SSDs.........................................................................................................................236