Users Guide

and enabling its ports connected to storage devices. Without an operating system, the driver will not be loaded, and there is no
guarantee that iDRAC will be able to display storage devices connected to Dell HBAs.
The non-RAID controllers are the HBAs that do not have few RAID capabilities. They do not support virtual disks.
14G iDRAC interface supports 12 Gbps SAS HBA controller, HBA330 (integrated and adapter) controllers, HBA330 MMZ, and
HBA330 MX adapters.
AMD platforms support HBA355i front and HBA355i Adapter controllers.
You can perform the following for non-RAID controllers:
● View controller, physical disks, and enclosure properties as applicable for the non-RAID controller. Also, view EMM, fan,
power supply unit, and temperature probe properties associated with the enclosure. The properties are displayed based on
the type of controller.
● View software and hardware inventory information.
● Update firmware for enclosures behind the 12 Gbps SAS HBA controller (staged)
● Monitor the polling or polling frequency for physical disk SMART trip status when there is change detected
● Monitor the physical disks hot plug or hot removal status
● Blink or unblink LEDs
NOTE:
● Enable Collect System Inventory On Reboot (CSIOR) operation before inventorying or monitoring the non-RAID
controllers.
● Real-time monitoring for SMART enabled drives and SES enclosure sensors is only done for the 12 Gbps SAS HBA
controllers and HBA330 internal controllers.
NOTE: Detection of failed drives behind SAS HBA controllers is not supported.
Monitoring predictive failure analysis on drives
Storage management supports Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) on physical disks that are SMART-
enabled.
SMART performs predictive failure analysis on each disk and sends alerts if a disk failure is predicted. The controllers check
physical disks for failure predictions and, if found, pass this information to iDRAC. iDRAC immediately logs an alert.
Controller operations in non-RAID mode or HBA mode
If the controller is in non-RAID mode (HBA mode), then:
● Virtual disks or hot spares are not available.
● Security state of the controller is disabled.
● 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 all properties including the following:
○ 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
Managing storage devices
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