Users Guide

• Real-time monitoring for SMART enabled drives and SES enclosure sensors is only done for the 12 Gbps SAS HBA
controllers and HBA330 internal controllers.
NOTE: During warm boot, there may be LC Logs for PDR8 Drive Inserted. This is because the HBA sends drive inserted
events to iDRAC due to loading and unloading of the HBA driver.
Related concepts
Inventorying and monitoring storage devices on page 190
Viewing system inventory on page 98
Updating device firmware on page 61
Monitoring predictive failure analysis on drives on page 205
Blinking or unblinking component LEDs on page 216
Monitoring predictive failure analysis on drives
Storage management supports Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) on physical disks that are SMART-enabled.
SMART performs predictive failure analysis on each disk and sends alerts if a disk failure is predicted. The controllers check physical disks
for failure predictions and, if found, pass this information to iDRAC. iDRAC immediately logs an alert.
Controller operations in non-RAID - HBA mode
If the controller is in non-RAID mode (HBA mode), then:
• Virtual disks or hot spares are not available.
• Security state of the controller is disabled.
• All physical disks are in non-RAID mode.
You can perform the following operations if the controller is in non-RAID mode:
• Blink/unblink the physical disk.
• Configure all properties including the following:
○ Load balanced mode
○ Check consistency mode
○ Patrol read mode
○ Copyback mode
○ Controller boot mode
○ Enhanced auto import foreign configuration
○ Rebuild rate
○ Check consistency rate
○ Reconstruct rate
○ BGI rate
○ Enclosure or backplane mode
○ Patrol read unconfigured areas
• View all properties that are applicable to a RAID controller expect for virtual disks.
• Clear foreign configuration
NOTE: If an operation is not supported in non-RAID mode, an error message is displayed.
You cannot monitor the enclosure temperature probes, fans, and power supplies when the controller is in non-RAID mode.
Running RAID configuration jobs on multiple storage
controllers
While performing operations on more than two storage controllers from any supported iDRAC interface, make sure to:
• Run the jobs on each controller individually. Wait for each job to complete before starting the configuration and job creation on the
next controller.
Managing storage devices
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