Creating A Raid Configuration With Ssa; Using Smart Storage Administrator (Ssa) - Hitachi HA800 Series User Manual

◦ Surface Scan Analysis Delay (Seconds)
◦ Current Parallel Surface Scan Count
• Advanced
◦ RAID 6/60 Alternate Consistency Repair Policy
◦ Maximum Drive Request Queue Depth
◦ Monitor and Performance Analysis Delay (Seconds)
◦ HDD Flexible Latency Optimization
◦ Parity RAID Degraded Mode Performance Optimization
◦ Physical Drive Request Elevator Sort
• Cache
◦ Read Cache Percentage
◦ Write Cache when Battery Not Present
◦ Write Cache Bypass Threshold (KiB)
◦ Physical Drive Write Cache
• Spare
◦ Predictive Spare Activation Mode
• Power
◦ Power Mode
◦ Survival Mode

Creating a RAID configuration with SSA

Using Smart Storage Administrator (SSA)

SSA provides high-availability configuration, management, and diagnostic capabilities for all smart array
products.
SSA features
SSA is a browser-based utility that runs in either offline or online mode. SSA:
• Supports online array capacity expansion, logical drive extension, assignment of online spares,
and RAID or stripe size migration.
• Suggests the optimum configuration for an unconfigured system.
• Provides different operating modes, enabling faster configuration or greater control over
the configuration options.
• Displays on-screen tips for individual steps of a configuration procedure.
In SSA, you can select a controller from the menu at the top left-hand side of the screen, or you can
choose to configure or diagnose an available controller from the same menu.
Performing maintenance
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