Users Guide

Setting warning threshold for power consumption using web interface................................................................... 159
Executing power control operations............................................................................................................................... 159
Executing power control operations using web interface......................................................................................... 159
Executing power control operations using RACADM................................................................................................159
Power capping................................................................................................................................................................160
Power capping in Blade servers................................................................................................................................160
Viewing and configuring power cap policy................................................................................................................ 160
Configuring power supply options................................................................................................................................... 161
Configuring power supply options using web interface..............................................................................................161
Configuring power supply options using RACADM.................................................................................................... 161
Configuring power supply options using iDRAC settings utility................................................................................. 162
Enabling or disabling power button................................................................................................................................. 162
12 Inventorying, monitoring, and configuring network devices........................................163
Inventorying and monitoring network devices.................................................................................................................163
Monitoring network devices using web interface......................................................................................................163
Monitoring network devices using RACADM............................................................................................................ 163
Inventorying and monitoring FC HBA devices.................................................................................................................164
Monitoring FC HBA devices using web interface......................................................................................................164
Monitoring FC HBA devices using RACADM............................................................................................................ 164
Dynamic configuration of virtual addresses, initiator, and storage target settings.......................................................... 164
Supported cards for I/O Identity Optimization......................................................................................................... 165
Supported NIC firmware versions for I/O Identity Optimization............................................................................... 166
Virtual/Flex Address and Persistence Policy behavior when iDRAC is set to Flex Address mode or Console mode..166
System behavior for FlexAddress and I/O Identity....................................................................................................167
Enabling or disabling I/O Identity Optimization......................................................................................................... 168
Configuring persistence policy settings.....................................................................................................................169
13 Managing storage devices.......................................................................................... 172
Understanding RAID concepts........................................................................................................................................ 173
What is RAID?...........................................................................................................................................................173
Organizing data storage for availability and performance..........................................................................................174
Choosing RAID levels ............................................................................................................................................... 175
Comparing RAID level performance..........................................................................................................................180
Supported controllers......................................................................................................................................................181
Supported RAID controllers....................................................................................................................................... 181
Supported non-RAID controllers...............................................................................................................................182
Supported enclosures.....................................................................................................................................................182
Summary of supported features for storage devices......................................................................................................182
Inventorying and monitoring storage devices..................................................................................................................184
Monitoring storage devices using web interface.......................................................................................................184
Monitoring storage devices using RACADM............................................................................................................. 185
Monitoring backplane using iDRAC settings utility.................................................................................................... 185
Viewing storage device topology.................................................................................................................................... 185
Managing physical disks..................................................................................................................................................185
Assigning or unassigning physical disk as global hot spare........................................................................................ 185
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