Users Guide

Hot Spare Protection Policy............................................................................................................................................ 31
Storage Component Severity..........................................................................................................................................31
Storage Properties And Current Activity....................................................................................................................... 31
Alerts Or Events...............................................................................................................................................................32
Monitoring Disk Reliability On RAID Controllers........................................................................................................... 32
Using Alarms To Detect Failures.....................................................................................................................................32
Using Enclosure Temperature Probes............................................................................................................................32
Time Delay In Displaying Conguration Changes......................................................................................................... 32
5 PCI Express Solid-State Device Support..................................................................................................... 33
PCIe SSD.......................................................................................................................................................................... 33
PCIe SSD Features.......................................................................................................................................................... 33
PCIe SSD Subsystem Properties................................................................................................................................... 33
PCIe Extender Cards....................................................................................................................................................... 34
Physical Device Properties............................................................................................................................................. 35
Physical Device Tasks...................................................................................................................................................... 37
Blinking And Unblinking A PCIe SSD....................................................................................................................... 38
Enabling Full Initialization On A Micron PCIe SSD................................................................................................. 38
Preparing To Remove A PCIe SSD.......................................................................................................................... 38
Exporting The Log..................................................................................................................................................... 39
Performing A Cryptographic Erase On An NVMe PCIe SSD............................................................................... 39
PCIe SSD In Slot Card Properties..................................................................................................................................40
PCIe SSD In Slot Card Tasks.......................................................................................................................................... 42
Exporting The Log For A PCIe SSD In Slot Card................................................................................................... 42
Performing A Cryptographic Erase On An NVMe PCIe SSD In Slot Card..........................................................43
PCIe SSD Subsystem Health..........................................................................................................................................43
Backplanes..................................................................................................................................................................44
Backplane Firmware Version.....................................................................................................................................44
6 Storage Information And Global Tasks......................................................................................................... 45
Storage Properties...........................................................................................................................................................45
Global Tasks...................................................................................................................................................................... 45
Setting the Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold................................................................................... 46
Setting the Available Spare Threshold.....................................................................................................................46
Storage Controller Properties.........................................................................................................................................47
Storage Components.................................................................................................................................................48
7 Controllers................................................................................................................................................... 49
Controller.......................................................................................................................................................................... 49
RAID Controller Technology - SATA And SAS..............................................................................................................50
SAS RAID Controllers................................................................................................................................................ 50
RAID Controller Features................................................................................................................................................ 50
Controller — Supported RAID Levels............................................................................................................................ 51
Controller — Supported Stripe Sizes.............................................................................................................................51
RAID Controller Read, Write, Cache, And Disk Cache Policy......................................................................................51
Read Policy.................................................................................................................................................................. 51
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