Concept Guide

Profile Name Description
Power Supply The DCIM Power Supply Profile describes the properties and interfaces for
executing system management tasks related to the management of power supplies
within a system.
Profile Registration The DCIM Profile Registration Profile defines the classes used to describe the DCIM
and DMTF profile registration and the version information of the profiles advertised
as implemented for a managed system and components of the system.
RAID
The RAID Profile extends the management capabilities of referencing profiles by
adding the capability to represent the configuration of RAID storage.
PERC9 support features provide the following features:
• RAID10–UnevenSpan support: This is a new feature that supports uneven spans
(spans with different span length) for RAID 10 virtual disk (VD). This is required to
support creation of RAID 10 VD with all possible number of physical disk drives.
With this feature the RAID firmware automatically handles the creation of spans
and therefore span information is hidden from end end users.
• PERC 12 GBPS speed: PERC 9 controllers provide support for 12 Gbps speed
and hence can support 12 Gbps physical disk drives.
• Auto Import of foreign config: PERC9 controllers provide support for enhanced
auto import of foreign config without requiring user interactions. This is ideal in
a headless server environment. This feature enables PERC controller to auto
import foreign config, when there is an existing configuration.
• ControllerBootMode: PERC9 controllers provide support for 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.
Record Log The DCIM Record Log Profile provides the management capabilities to represent
logs of a managed system element.
Role Based
Authorization
The DCIM Role Based Authorization Profile describes the properties and interfaces
for executing system management tasks related to the authorization.
Sensors The DCIM Sensors Profile describes the properties and interfaces for executing
system management tasks related to the management of sensors within a system.
Simple ID
Management
The DCIM Simple Identity Management Profile describes the properties and
interfaces for executing system management tasks related to the management of
accounts and identities.
Simple Raid The profile extends the management capabilities to represent the configuration 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 Profile describes the properties and interfaces for
executing system management tasks related to the management of the service
processor and iDRAC.
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