Concept Guide

Table 2. Profiles (continued)
Profile Name Description
DCIM_LCService provider adds the following methods: RunePSADiagnostics () and
ExportePSADiagnosticsResult() for the automatic diagnostics.
DHCP-based configuration: Along with getting the IP address from the DHCP server, when the
server comes up, user can set any configuration attribute of iDRAC using an OEM field
License Management The License Management Profile is an autonomous profile for modeling the Dell Product License
Manager (License Manager). It extends the management capabilities of referencing profiles by adding
the capability to represent the devices and Licenses managed by the Dell Product Licensing Manager.
Memory The DCIM Memory Profile describes the properties and interfaces for running system management
tasks related to the management of memories (DIMMs) within a system.
OS Deployment OS deployment profile describes how to remotely download, setup, and monitor an operating system
on a bare metal machine.
PCI The DCIM PCI Device Profile describes the properties and interfaces for running system management
tasks related to the management of PCI devices within a system.
Persistent Storage The Persistent Storage Profile extends the management capabilities of referencing profiles by adding
the capability to represent and manage the partitions on the Virtual flash media on Dell platforms.
Physical Computer
System View
This profile includes a specification of the physical computer system view, extrinsic methods for
management operations, and its associated relationships.
Power State
Management
The Power State Management Profile describes the classes, associations, properties, and methods
used to manage the power of a system.
Power Supply The DCIM Power Supply Profile describes the properties and interfaces for running system
management tasks related to the management of power supplies within a system.
Profile Registration The DCIM Profile Registration Profile defines the classes used to describe the DCIM and DMTF
profile registration and the version information of the profiles advertised as implemented for a
managed system and components of the system.
RAID
The RAID Profile extends the management capabilities of referencing profiles by adding the capability
to represent the configuration of RAID storage.
PERC9 support features provide the following features:
● RAID10–UnevenSpan support: This is a new feature that supports uneven spans (spans with
different span length) for RAID 10 virtual disk (VD). This is required to support creation of RAID
10 VD with all possible number of physical disk drives. With this feature the RAID firmware
automatically handles the creation of spans and therefore span information is hidden from end end
users.
● PERC 12 GBPS speed: PERC 9 controllers are of 12 gbps speed and hence can support 12 gbps
physical disk drives.
● Auto Import of foreign config: PERC9 controllers supports enhanced auto import of foreign config
without requiring user interactions. This is ideal in a headless server environment. This feature
enables PERC controller to auto import foreign config, when there is an existing configuration.
● ControllerBootMode: PERC9 controllers supports setting controller boot mode. This is ideal in
a headless server environment. This feature enables PERC controller to either wait for user
interaction on error, or to continue boot on error, or headless mode continue boot on error or boot
to headless safe mode. In each boot mode, the PERC either ignores or takes default action and
continues on error.
● 4K sector drives: PERC 9 is introducing support for hard-disk drives with 4k sector size. The
purpose of this feature is to allow customers to use new 4k sector HDDs, which allow faster data
transfer using fewer commands.
● RAID real-time configuration support: Configuration jobs are run in real-time, host reboot is not
required.
● Changes the controller mode from RAID to HBA or HBA to RAID.
Record Log
The DCIM Record Log Profile provides the management capabilities to represent logs of a managed
system element.
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