13 Managing Storage Devices

203

Understanding RAID Concepts

204

What Is RAID?

205

Organizing Data Storage For Availability And Performance

206

Choosing RAID Levels

206

Comparing RAID Level Performance

213

Supported Controllers

215

Supported RAID Controllers

215

Supported Non-RAID Controllers

215

Supported Enclosures

215

Summary of Supported Features for Storage Devices

215

Inventory and Monitoring Storage Devices

218

Monitoring Storage Device Using Web Interface

218

Monitoring Storage Device Using RACADM

219

Monitoring Backplane Using iDRAC Settings Utility

219

Viewing Storage Device Topology

219

Managing Physical Disks

219

Assigning or Unassigning Physical Disk as Global Hot spare

219

Convert To RAID Capable Disk

220

Convert To Non-RAID Disk

221

Managing Virtual Disks

221

Creating Virtual Disks

221

Editing Virtual Disk Cache Policies

223

Deleting Virtual Disks

224

Checking Virtual Disk Consistency

224

Initializing Virtual Disks

225

Encrypting Virtual Disks

226

Assigning or Unassigning Dedicated Hot Spares

226

Managing Virtual Disks Using Web Interface

226

Managing Virtual Disks Using RACADM

227

Managing Controllers

227

Configuring Controller Properties

228

Importing or Auto Importing Foreign Configuration

231

Clearing Foreign Configuration

232

Resetting Controller Configuration

233

12Gbps SAS HBA Adapter Operations

234

Monitoring Predictive Failure Analysis On Drives

234

Controller Operations in Non-RAID (HBA) Mode

235

Running RAID Configuration Jobs On Multiple Storage Controllers

235

Managing PCIe SSDs

235

Inventory and Monitoring PCIe SSDs

236

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