Users Guide

NOTE: Patrol read mode operations such as Start and Stop are not supported if there are no virtual disks available in
the controller. Though you can invoke the operations successfully using the iDRAC interfaces, the operations will fail
when the associated job is started.
● To specify the Check Consistency Mode, use Storage.Controller.CheckConsistencyMode object.
● To enable or disable the Copyback Mode, use Storage.Controller.CopybackMode object.
● To enable or disable the Load Balance Mode, use Storage.Controller.PossibleloadBalancedMode object.
● To specify the percentage of the system's resources dedicated to perform a check consistency on a redundant virtual disk,
use Storage.Controller.CheckConsistencyRate object.
● To specify the percentage of the controller's resources dedicated to rebuild a failed disk, use
Storage.Controller.RebuildRate object
● To specify the percentage of the controller's resources dedicated to perform the background initialization (BGI) of a virtual
disk after it is created, useStorage.Controller.BackgroundInitializationRate object
● To specify the percentage of the controller's resources dedicated to reconstruct a disk group after adding a physical disk or
changing the RAID level of a virtual disk residing on the disk group, use Storage.Controller.ReconstructRate object
● To enable or disable the enhanced auto import of foreign configuration for the controller, use
Storage.Controller.EnhancedAutoImportForeignConfig object
● To create, modify, or delete security key to encrypt virtual drives:
racadm storage createsecuritykey:<Controller FQDD> -key <Key id> -passwd <passphrase>
racadm storage modifysecuritykey:<Controller FQDD> -key <key id> -oldpasswd <old
passphrase> -newpasswd <new passphrase>
racadm storage deletesecuritykey:<Controller FQDD>
Importing or auto importing foreign configuration
A foreign configuration is data residing on physical disks that have been moved from one controller to another. Virtual disks
residing on physical disks that have been moved are considered to be a foreign configuration.
You can import foreign configurations so that virtual disks are not lost after moving Physical Disks. A foreign configuration can
be imported only if it contains a virtual disk that is in either Ready or Degraded state or a hotspare that is dedicated to a virtual
disk which can be imported or is already present.
All of the virtual disk data must be present, but if the virtual disk is using a redundant RAID level, the additional redundant data is
not required.
For example, if the foreign configuration contains only one side of a mirror in a RAID 1 virtual disk, then the virtual disk is in a
Degraded state and can be imported. If the foreign configuration contains only one physical disk that was originally configured
as a RAID 5 using three physical disks, then the RAID 5 virtual disk is in a Failed state and cannot be imported.
In addition to virtual disks, a foreign configuration may consist of a physical disk that was assigned as a hot spare on one
controller and then moved to another controller. The Import Foreign Configuration task imports the new physical disk as a hot
spare. If the physical disk was set as a dedicated hot spare on the previous controller, but the virtual disk to which the hot spare
was assigned is no longer present in the foreign configuration, then the physical disk is imported as a global hot spare.
If any foreign configurations locked using Local Key manager (LKM) are Detected, then import foreign configuration operation is
not possible in iDRAC in this release. You must unlock the drives through CTRL-R and then continue to import foreign
configuration from iDRAC.
The Import Foreign Configuration task is only displayed when the controller has detected a foreign configuration. You can also
identify whether a physical disk contains a foreign configuration (virtual disk or hot spare) by checking the physical disk state. If
the physical disk state is Foreign, then the physical disk contains all or some portion of a virtual disk or has a hot spare
assignment.
NOTE:
The task of importing foreign configuration imports all virtual disks residing on physical disks that have been added
to the controller. If more than one foreign virtual disk is present, all the configurations are imported.
PERC9 controller provides support for auto import of foreign configuration without requiring user interactions. The auto import
can be enabled or disabled. If enabled, the PERC controller can auto import any foreign configuration detected without manual
intervention. If disabled the PERC does not auto import any foreign configuration.
You must have Login and Server Control privilege to import foreign configurations.
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