Dell
Table of Contents
1 | Product Comparison | 5 | ||
| 1.1 | Overview | 5 | |
| 1.2 | PERC H700 Model Overview | 6 | |
| 1.3 | PERC H800 Model Overview | 7 | |
2 | New Features | 9 | ||
| 2.1 | New Feature Overview | 9 | |
| 2.2 | 6Gb/s SAS (SAS 2.0) Overview | 9 | |
| 2.2.1 | 6Gb/s SAS Performance Benefit over 3Gb/s SAS | 10 | |
| 2.2.2 | 6Gb/s SAS Expectation | 10 | |
3 | Product Support | 11 | ||
| 3.1 | PowerEdge™ Server Support | 11 | |
| 3.2 | Management Software Support | 11 | |
| 3.3 | Operating System Support | 11 | |
| 3.4 | Drive Support | 12 | |
4 | Product Overview | 13 | ||
| 4.1 | PERC H700 and PERC H800 Feature Overview | 13 | |
| 4.2 | CacheCade | 15 | |
| 4.3 | 15 | ||
| 4.4 | Reconfiguring Virtual Disks | 15 | |
| 4.5 | 16 | ||
| 4.5.1 | 17 | ||
| 4.5.2 | Automatic Replace Member with Predicted Failure | 17 | |
| 4.5.3 | Redundant Path with Load Balancing Support | 17 | |
| 4.5.4 | Failed Physical Disk Detection | 17 | |
| 4.5.5 | Using Replace Member and Revertible Hot Spares | 17 | |
| 4.5.6 | Enclosure Affinity | 18 | |
| 4.5.7 | Battery | 18 | |
| 4.6 | Physical Disk Hot Swapping | 18 | |
| 4.7 | Disk Roaming | 19 | |
| 4.8 | Disk Migration | 19 | |
| 4.9 | PERC H700 and H800 Security Key and RAID Management | 19 | |
| 4.9.1 | PERC H700 and H800 Security Key Implementation | 19 | |
| 4.9.2 | Configuring and Managing Secured RAID | 19 | |
| 4.10 | Virtual Disk Write Cache Policies | 20 | |
| 4.11 | Virtual Disk Read Cache Policies | 20 | |
5 | RAID Overview | 21 | ||
| 5.1 | About RAID | 21 | |
| 5.2 | Advantages of RAID | 21 | |
| 5.3 | Supported RAID Levels | 21 | |
| 5.3.1 | RAID 0 (Striped Virtual Disk without Fault Tolerance) | 21 | |
| 5.3.2 | RAID 1 (Mirroring) | 22 | |
| 5.3.3 | RAID 5 (Striping With Distributed Parity) | 23 | |
| 5.3.4 | RAID 6 (Striping With Dual Distributed Parity) | 24 | |
DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide | 3 |