Users Guide
Storage Properties And Current Activity.......................................................................................................................27
Alerts Or Events............................................................................................................................................................... 27
Monitoring Disk Reliability On RAID Controllers........................................................................................................... 27
Using Alarms To Detect Failures.....................................................................................................................................28
Time Delay In Displaying Conguration Changes......................................................................................................... 28
5 PCI Express Solid-State Device Support..................................................................................................... 29
PCIe SSD.......................................................................................................................................................................... 29
PCIe SSD Features.......................................................................................................................................................... 29
PCIe SSD Subsystem Properties................................................................................................................................... 29
Physical Device Properties............................................................................................................................................. 30
Physical Device Tasks......................................................................................................................................................32
Blinking And Unblinking A PCIe SSD....................................................................................................................... 33
Preparing To Remove A PCIe SSD...........................................................................................................................33
Exporting The Log..................................................................................................................................................... 33
Performing A Cryptographic Erase On An NVMe PCIe SSD............................................................................... 33
PCIe SSD In Slot Card Tasks.......................................................................................................................................... 34
To Locate Cryptographic Erase In Storage Management For A PCIe SSD In Slot Card...................................34
PCIe SSD Subsystem Health..........................................................................................................................................35
Backplanes..................................................................................................................................................................35
Backplane Firmware Version.................................................................................................................................... 35
6 Storage Information And Global Tasks......................................................................................................... 36
Storage Properties...........................................................................................................................................................36
Global Tasks...................................................................................................................................................................... 36
Setting the Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold................................................................................... 36
Setting the Available Spare Threshold.....................................................................................................................37
Storage Controller Properties.........................................................................................................................................38
Storage Components................................................................................................................................................ 39
7 Controllers................................................................................................................................................... 40
Controller.......................................................................................................................................................................... 40
RAID Controller Technology - SATA And SAS..............................................................................................................40
SAS RAID Controllers................................................................................................................................................. 41
RAID Controller Features................................................................................................................................................. 41
Controller — Supported RAID Levels............................................................................................................................ 41
Controller — Supported Stripe Sizes.............................................................................................................................41
RAID Controller Read, Write, Cache, And Disk Cache Policy..................................................................................... 42
Read Policy................................................................................................................................................................. 42
Write Policy................................................................................................................................................................. 42
Cache Policy............................................................................................................................................................... 43
Disk Cache Policy.......................................................................................................................................................43
Background Initialization On PERC Controllers............................................................................................................44
Non-RAID Controller Description...................................................................................................................................44
Non-RAID SAS Controllers....................................................................................................................................... 44
Firmware Or Driver Versions...........................................................................................................................................44
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