Users Guide
• All physical disks are in non-RAID mode.
You can perform the following operations if the controller is in non-RAID mode:
• Blink/unblink the physical disk.
• Configure the following properties:
– Load balanced mode
– Check consistency mode
– Patrol read mode
– Copyback mode
– Controller boot mode
– Enhanced auto import foreign configuration
– Rebuild rate
– Check consistency rate
– Reconstruct rate
– BGI rate
– Enclosure or backplane mode
– Patrol read unconfigured areas
• View all properties that are applicable to a RAID controller expect for virtual disks.
• Clear foreign configuration
NOTE: If an operation is not supported in non-RAID mode, an error message is displayed.
You cannot monitor the enclosure temperature probes, fans, and power supplies when the controller is
in non-RAID mode.
Running RAID configuration jobs on multiple storage controllers
While performing operations on more than two storage controllers from any supported iDRAC interface,
make sure to:
• Run the jobs on each controller individually. Wait for each job to complete before starting the
configuration and job creation on the next controller.
• Schedule multiple jobs to run at a later time using the scheduling options.
Managing PCIe SSDs
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) solid-state device (SSD) is a high-performance
storage device designed for solutions requiring low latency, high Input Output Operations per Second
(IOPS), and enterprise class storage reliability and serviceability. The PCIe SSD is designed based on Single
Level Cell (SLC) and Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND flash technology with a high-speed PCIe 2.0 or PCIe
3.0 compliant interface. iDRAC 2.20.20.20 and later versions support Half-Height Half-Length (HHHL)
PCIe SSD cards on Dell’s 13th generation of PowerEdge rack and tower servers and Dell PowerEdge R920
servers. The HHHL SSD card can be directly plugged in to the PCI slot in the servers that do not have
PCIe SSD supported backplanes. You can also use these cards on servers with supported backplanes.
Using iDRAC interfaces, you can view and configure NVMe PCIe SSDs.
The key features of PCIe SSD are:
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