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, under Actions, click Configure. Options include:
• Controller settings—Configures the supported controller settings. Depending on the controller, these
can include setting the array accelerator cache ratio, transform and rebuild priorities, and surface scan
delay.
• 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.
• Clear configuration—Resets the controller's configuration to its default state. Existing arrays or
logical drives are deleted, and data on the logical drives is lost. Confirm this is the preferred action
before proceeding.
• 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.
• Modify spare activation mode—Switches the spare activation mode from the default
behavior (activate on failure only) to predictive spare activation and back.
• 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.
• 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 of its child devices, when applicable.
Diagnostics/SmartSSD
On the Smart Storage Administrator screen, 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.
◦ Save Diagnostic Report—Generates a diagnostic report for the selected devices for export
without presenting a graphical display.
• SmartSSD Wear Gauge Report—View or generate a report:
◦ View SmartSSD Wear Gauge Report—Displays SSD usage and estimated lifetime information.
◦ Save SmartSSD Wear Gauge Report—Generates a report for export, without presenting a
graphical display.
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