User's Manual
Importing Foreign Configurations................................................................................................78
Importing Or Recovering Foreign Configurations.......................................................................78
Clearing Foreign Configuration.................................................................................................... 79
Physical Disks In Foreign Virtual Disks......................................................................................... 80
Setting Background Initialization Rate......................................................................................... 82
Setting The Check Consistency Rate........................................................................................... 83
Setting The Reconstruct Rate.......................................................................................................84
Setting The Redundant Path Configuration.................................................................................84
Setting The Patrol Read Mode......................................................................................................86
Starting And Stopping Patrol Read............................................................................................... 87
Changing The Controller Properties............................................................................................88
Managing The Physical Disk Power..............................................................................................89
Managing The Preserved Cache................................................................................................... 91
Encryption Key.............................................................................................................................. 92
Converting To Non-RAID Disks....................................................................................................94
Converting To RAID Capable Disks..............................................................................................94
Viewing Available Reports ..................................................................................................................95
Available Reports...........................................................................................................................95
Viewing Patrol Read Report..........................................................................................................95
Viewing Check Consistency Report............................................................................................. 95
Viewing Slot Occupancy Report.................................................................................................. 96
Viewing Physical Disk Firmware Version Report..........................................................................96
9 Support For PERC 9 Hardware Controllers..................................................... 99
Support For RAID Level 10 Virtual Disk Creation On PERC 9 Hardware Controller........................ 99
RAID Level 10 Virtual Disk Creation With Uneven Span.............................................................. 99
Support For Advanced Format 4K Sector Hard-Disk Drives........................................................... 100
Hot Spare Considerations — 4K Sector Hard-Disk Drives.........................................................101
Reconfiguration Considerations — 4K Sector Hard-Disk Drives...............................................101
T10 Standard Protection Information (PI) — Data Integrity Field.................................................... 101
Hot Spare Considerations — T10 Protection Information Capability....................................... 102
10 Enclosures And Backplanes............................................................................. 103
Backplanes.........................................................................................................................................103
Enclosures......................................................................................................................................... 103
SMART Thermal Shutdown.........................................................................................................104
Enclosure Physical Disks.............................................................................................................104
Enclosure Fans............................................................................................................................ 104
Enclosure Power Supplies...........................................................................................................105
Enclosure Temperature Probes..................................................................................................106
Enclosure Management Modules (EMMs)..................................................................................108
Enclosure And Backplane Health................................................................................................110