Users Guide
Hot Spare Protection Policy............................................................................................................................................. 29
Storage Component Severity........................................................................................................................................... 30
Storage Properties And Current Activity.......................................................................................................................... 30
Alerts Or Events...............................................................................................................................................................30
Monitoring Disk Reliability On RAID Controllers................................................................................................................. 31
Using Alarms To Detect Failures........................................................................................................................................ 31
Using Enclosure Temperature Probes................................................................................................................................31
Time Delay In Displaying Conguration Changes............................................................................................................... 31
5 PCI Express Solid-State Device Support....................................................................... 32
What Is PCIe SSD?.......................................................................................................................................................... 32
PCIe SSD Features...........................................................................................................................................................32
PCIe SSD Subsystem Properties...................................................................................................................................... 32
Physical Device Properties............................................................................................................................................... 33
Physical Device Tasks.......................................................................................................................................................35
Blinking And Unblinking A PCIe SSD...........................................................................................................................35
Enabling Full Initialization On A Micron PCIe SSD.......................................................................................................35
Preparing To Remove A PCIe SSD..............................................................................................................................36
Exporting The Log......................................................................................................................................................36
Performing A Cryptographic Erase On An NVMe PCIe SSD....................................................................................... 37
PCIe SSD In Slot Card Properties..................................................................................................................................... 37
PCIe SSD In Slot Card Tasks............................................................................................................................................ 39
Exporting The Log For A PCIe SSD In Slot Card.........................................................................................................39
Performing A Cryptographic Erase On An NVMe PCIe SSD In Slot Card................................................................... 40
PCIe SSD Subsystem Health.............................................................................................................................................41
Backplanes..................................................................................................................................................................41
Backplane Firmware Version....................................................................................................................................... 41
6 Storage Information And Global Tasks........................................................................... 42
Storage Properties........................................................................................................................................................... 42
Global Tasks......................................................................................................................................................................42
Setting the Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold.......................................................................................... 42
Setting the Available Spare Threshold........................................................................................................................ 43
Storage Controller Properties........................................................................................................................................... 44
Storage Components................................................................................................................................................. 45
7 Controllers.................................................................................................................... 46
What Is A Controller?....................................................................................................................................................... 46
RAID Controller Technology: SATA And SAS.....................................................................................................................46
SAS RAID Controllers................................................................................................................................................. 46
RAID Controller Features..................................................................................................................................................46
Controller — Supported RAID Levels............................................................................................................................... 47
Controller — Supported Stripe Sizes................................................................................................................................47
RAID Controller Read, Write, Cache, And Disk Cache Policy.............................................................................................47
Read Policy.................................................................................................................................................................47
Write Policy................................................................................................................................................................ 48
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