Dell S100, S300 manual General Features, Description

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Features

General Features

The features of the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) S100 and PERC S300 adapter are described in Table 3-1.

NOTE: BAS, BGI, CC and OCE run only on the operating system.

Table 3-1. Features of the PERC S100 controller and PERC S300 controller

RAID Controller Feature	Description
Automatic virtual disk	Rebuilds a redundant virtual disk automatically when a
rebuild	failure is detected, if a hot spare is assigned for this capability.
Background Array	Verifies and corrects correctable media errors on mirror,
Scan (BAS)	volume, or parity data for virtual disks. BAS starts
	automatically after a Virtual Disk is created while in the OS.
Background virtual	The background initialization of a redundant virtual disk
disk initialization	creates the parity data that allows the virtual disk to maintain
(BGI)	its redundant data and survive a physical disk failure.
	Because background initialization helps the controller to
	identify and correct problems that might occur with the
	redundant data at a later time, background initialization is
	similar to a consistency check.
	Background initialization allows a redundant virtual disk to
	be used immediately. Data is lost if a physical disk fails before
	the completion of a BGI.
	NOTE: Although a BGI is software-initiated at the PERC Virtual
	Disk Management utility, the PERC S100 adapter/PERC S300
	adapter drivers must be loaded before the BGI runs.
	NOTE: Unless mentioned otherwise, the term PERC Virtual Disk
	Management utility refers to both the PERC S100 Virtual Disk
	Management utility and the PERC S300 Virtual Disk
	Management utility.

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