Administrator Guide

Comparison Matrix – iDRAC, iDRAC with iSM, and OMSA
12 In-band or out-of-band: Advantages of iDRAC and iSM compared to OMSA | ID 423
Category
Feature
iDRAC9
iDRAC9 with iSM
OMSA
Create Virtual Disk
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Delete Virtual Disk
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Reset Controller Configuration
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Clear Foreign Configuration
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Import Foreign Configuration
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Initialize Virtual Disk (Fast and Full)
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Consistency Check for Virtual Disk
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Start/Stop Patrol Read
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Assign/Unassign Global and Dedicate Hot
spares
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Blink/Unblink Physical Disk/Virtual Disk
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Local Key Management (Create/Change/Delete
Security Key)
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Controller Attributes
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Virtual Disk Attributes
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Convert drive to RAID
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Convert drive to Non-RAID
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Staged RAID configuration
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real time
Preparing to Remove A PCIe SSD (NVMe)
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Boot Optimized Storage Solution (BOSS)
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Monitor
Correlation of Software alerts in Storage(S2D)
environment to Hardware logs
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Automated dispatch of Drives for select
predictive failure alerts
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Software RAID
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Smart Alerts Monitoring from SW RAID Devices
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Smart Alerts Monitoring in AHCI Mode
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Networking
Internet standard MIB-II
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Network device MIB
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Link Up/Down traps
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Teaming Information
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VLAN Information
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Statistics
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Host operating system IP Address and
hostname
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MAC Address
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Support for IPv6 and toggle between IPv4 and
IPv6
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Non-SDL Card Support
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Device Configuration
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BIOS settings
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