Performing maintenance
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Accessing SSA
Procedure
1.
On the Intelligent Provisioning home screen, click
Perform Maintenance
.
2.
Select
Raid Configuration
from the maintenance options.
The Smart Storage Administrator window is displayed.
Configuration
On the Smart Storage Administrator screen from left panel of Available Device (s) select a
RAID controller item
under
Smart Array Controllers
section, and then, under
Actions
, click
Configure
. Options include:
•
Modify Controller settings
—Configures the supported controller settings. Depending on the controller, the options
can include setting the array accelerator cache ratio, transform and rebuild priorities, and surface scan delay.
•
Set Sanitize Lock
—Changes your Sanitize Lock Settings. This option is only available on controllers that support
Freeze or Anti-Freeze.
•
Advanced Controller Settings
—Configures the supported advanced controller settings. The settings can help
improve the controller performance for Video-On-Demand applications. For example, changing the elevator sort
parameters.
•
Modify spare activation mode
—Switches the spare activation mode from the default behavior (activate on failure
only) to predictive spare activation and back.
•
Clear configuration
—Resets the controller configuration to its default state. Existing arrays or logical drives are
deleted, and data on the logical drives is lost. Confirm that this option is the preferred action before proceeding.
•
Manage Power Settings
—Modifies the controller power mode and enables or disables survival mode for supported
controllers. A reboot or cold boot may be required after changing power modes to optimize power savings and
performance.
•
Set Bootable Logical Drive/Volume
—Sets the primary and secondary boot logical drives and volumes. Local logical
drives as well as remote logical drives and volumes are listed for selection.
•
Check Online Firmware Activation Readiness
—Check the current configuration to determine if an Online Firmware
Activation is allowed.
•
Manage Device Identification LEDs
—Turn the physical drive identification LEDs On or Off.
•
Caching settings
—Configures the supported caching settings which can help increase performance by taking
advantage of cache memory. Caching also helps protect data integrity when used with a battery or capacitor.
•
Physical drive write cache settings
—Enables or disables the write cache on physical drives attached to a controller.
This feature can improve performance but precautions must be taken to ensure data integrity.
•
Manage License Keys
—Enables the user to add or remove license keys. Depending on the keys entered or removed,
various features can be enabled or disabled.
•
More information
—Provides an in-depth display of available information for the currently selected device and all its
child devices, when applicable.
Diagnose
On the Smart Storage Administrator screen from left panel of Available Device (s), select
Server
under
Server
section,
and then, under
Actions
, click
Diagnose
. Options include.
•
Array Diagnostics Report
—Runs reports on selected controllers to display available diagnostic tasks. Reports include
SmartSSD Wear Gauge information for supported solid state drives.
◦
View Diagnostic Report
—Generates and displays a diagnostic report for the selected devices. The report includes
SmartSSD Wear Gauge information for supported Solid State Drives, and usage and estimated lifetime information.
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