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Setting warning threshold for power consumption using web interface................................................................... 169
Executing power control operations............................................................................................................................... 169
Executing power control operations using web interface..........................................................................................169
Executing power control operations using RACADM................................................................................................ 170
Power capping................................................................................................................................................................170
Power capping in Blade servers................................................................................................................................ 170
Viewing and configuring power cap policy................................................................................................................ 170
Configuring power supply options....................................................................................................................................171
Configuring power supply options using web interface............................................................................................. 172
Configuring power supply options using RACADM....................................................................................................172
Configuring power supply options using iDRAC settings utility..................................................................................172
Enabling or disabling power button................................................................................................................................. 172
12 Inventorying, monitoring, and configuring network devices........................................173
Inventorying and monitoring network devices.................................................................................................................173
Monitoring network devices using web interface......................................................................................................173
Monitoring network devices using RACADM............................................................................................................ 174
Inventorying and monitoring FC HBA devices.................................................................................................................174
Monitoring FC HBA devices using web interface...................................................................................................... 174
Monitoring FC HBA devices using RACADM.............................................................................................................174
Dynamic configuration of virtual addresses, initiator, and storage target settings...........................................................174
Supported cards for I/O Identity Optimization..........................................................................................................175
Supported NIC firmware versions for I/O Identity Optimization............................................................................... 176
Virtual/Flex Address and Persistence Policy behavior when iDRAC is set to Flex Address mode or Console mode..176
System behavior for FlexAddress and I/O Identity....................................................................................................177
Enabling or disabling I/O Identity Optimization..........................................................................................................178
Configuring persistence policy settings.....................................................................................................................179
13 Managing storage devices..........................................................................................182
Understanding RAID concepts........................................................................................................................................183
What is RAID?.......................................................................................................................................................... 183
Organizing data storage for availability and performance..........................................................................................184
Choosing RAID levels ...............................................................................................................................................185
Comparing RAID level performance..........................................................................................................................190
Supported controllers......................................................................................................................................................191
Supported RAID controllers.......................................................................................................................................191
Supported non-RAID controllers...............................................................................................................................192
Supported enclosures.....................................................................................................................................................192
Summary of supported features for storage devices......................................................................................................192
Inventorying and monitoring storage devices..................................................................................................................194
Monitoring storage devices using web interface.......................................................................................................194
Monitoring storage devices using RACADM............................................................................................................. 195
Monitoring backplane using iDRAC settings utility.................................................................................................... 195
Viewing storage device topology.................................................................................................................................... 195
Managing physical disks..................................................................................................................................................195
Assigning or unassigning physical disk as global hot spare........................................................................................ 195
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