Users Guide
Alerts Or Events.................................................................................................................................................................. 28
Monitoring Disk Reliability On RAID Controllers.............................................................................................................. 28
Using Alarms To Detect Failures....................................................................................................................................... 28
Time Delay In Displaying Configuration Changes............................................................................................................ 29
5 PCI Express Solid-State Device Support...................................................................................... 30
PCIe SSD.............................................................................................................................................................................. 30
PCIe SSD Features..............................................................................................................................................................30
PCIe SSD Subsystem Properties.......................................................................................................................................30
PCIe Extender Cards........................................................................................................................................................... 31
Physical Device Properties................................................................................................................................................. 32
Physical Device Tasks......................................................................................................................................................... 34
Blinking And Unblinking A PCIe SSD........................................................................................................................... 34
Enabling Full Initialization On A Micron PCIe SSD..................................................................................................... 34
Preparing To Remove A PCIe SSD............................................................................................................................. 35
Exporting The Log......................................................................................................................................................... 35
Performing A Cryptographic Erase On An NVMe PCIe SSD...................................................................................35
PCIe SSD In Slot Card Tasks............................................................................................................................................. 36
To Locate Cryptographic Erase In Storage Management For A PCIe SSD In Slot Card..................................... 36
PCIe SSD In Slot Card Properties..................................................................................................................................... 36
PCIe SSD In Slot Card Tasks............................................................................................................................................. 38
Exporting The Log For A PCIe SSD In Slot Card.............................................................................................................38
To Locate Export Log In Storage Management For NVMe PCIe SSDs.......................................................................38
PCIe SSD Subsystem Health............................................................................................................................................. 39
Backplanes......................................................................................................................................................................39
Backplane Firmware Version........................................................................................................................................39
6 Storage Information And Global Tasks..........................................................................................40
Storage Properties.............................................................................................................................................................. 40
Global Tasks......................................................................................................................................................................... 40
Setting the Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold...................................................................................... 40
Setting the Available Spare Threshold.........................................................................................................................41
Storage Controller Properties............................................................................................................................................42
Storage Components.................................................................................................................................................... 43
7 Controllers.................................................................................................................................44
Controller.............................................................................................................................................................................. 44
RAID Controller Technology - SATA And SAS.................................................................................................................44
SAS RAID Controllers....................................................................................................................................................44
RAID Controller Features....................................................................................................................................................45
Controller — Supported RAID Levels...............................................................................................................................45
Controller — Supported Stripe Sizes...............................................................................................................................45
RAID Controller Read, Write, and Disk Cache Policy......................................................................................................45
Read Policy.....................................................................................................................................................................46
Write Policy.................................................................................................................................................................... 46
Disk Cache Policy.......................................................................................................................................................... 46
Background Initialization On PERC Controllers............................................................................................................... 47
Non-RAID Controller Description.......................................................................................................................................47
Non-RAID SAS Controllers........................................................................................................................................... 47
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