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3 Standards-based storage management for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
Contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
2 iDRAC RESTful API and DMTF Redfish ...................................................................................................................... 6
2.1 Key benefits of DMTF Redfish ............................................................................................................................ 7
3 Redfish 2016 Storage Management APIs .................................................................................................................... 8
3.1 Inventorying PowerEdge storage with Redfish 2016 .......................................................................................... 8
3.2 Creating a virtual drive (VD) by using Redfish 2016 ........................................................................................ 10
3.3 Deleting a virtual drive (VD) by using Redfish 2016 ......................................................................................... 13
3.4 Initialize virtual drive (VD) by using Redfish 2016 ............................................................................................ 14
3.5 Check virtual drive (VD) consistency by using Redfish 2016 ........................................................................... 16
3.6 Setting external storage enclosure asset tag by using Redfish 2016 .............................................................. 18
3.7 Cryptographically erase drives by using Redfish 2016 .................................................................................... 19
3.8 Limitations when using Redfish 2016 standard storage APIs for storage configuration .................................. 21
3.9 Benefits of using the Dell EMC Server Configuration Profile feature ............................................................... 21
4 Summary .................................................................................................................................................................... 23
5 Additional Information ................................................................................................................................................. 24