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H700, H800 manual
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Dell PowerEdge RAID
Controller Cards
H700 and H800
Technical Guide
Enterprise-class
controllers
designed for
performance,
reliability, and
fault tolerance.
Contents
Main
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Table of Contents
Tables
Figures
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1 Product Comparison
1.1 Overview
1.2 PERC H700 Overview
1.3 PERC H800 Overview
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2 New Features
2.2.1 6Gb/s SAS Performance Benefit over 3Gb/s SAS
2.2.2 6Gb/s SAS Expectation
3 Product Support
3.1 Dell PowerEdge Server Support
3.2 Management Software Support
3.3 Operating System Support
3.4 Drive Support
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4 Product Overview
4.1 PERC H700 and PERC H800 Overview
Table 7. PERC H700 and PERC H800 Features
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4.2 CacheCade
4.3 Cut-Through IO
4.4 Reconfiguring Virtual Disks
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Table 8. RAID Level Migration
4.5 Fault-Tolerance Features
4.5.1 Non-Volatile Cache
4.5.2 Automatic Replace Member with Predicted Failure
4.5.3 Redundant Path with Load Balancing Support
4.5.4 Failed Physical Disk Detection
4.5.5 Using Replace Member and Revertible Hot Spares
4.5.6 Enclosure Affinity
4.5.7 Battery Back-up of Controller Cache
The replacement drive must be of equal or greater capacity than the one it is replacing.
4.5.7.1 Battery Management
4.5.7.2 Battery Learn Cycle
4.7 Disk Roaming
4.8 Disk Migration
4.9.2 Configuring and Managing Secured RAID
Dell OpenManage Storage Management BIOS Configuration Utility
4.10 Virtual Disk Write Cache Policies
4.11 Virtual Disk Read Cache Policies
Always Read AheadRead-Ahead capability allows the controller to read sequentially ahead
5 RAID Overview
5.3.2 RAID 1 (Mirroring)
5.3.3 RAID 5 (Striping With Distributed Parity)
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5.3.4 RAID 6 (Striping With Dual Distributed Parity)
5.3.5 RAID 10 (Striping over Mirrored Sets)
5.3.6 RAID 50 (Striping Across RAID 5)
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5.3.7 RAID 60 (Striping Across RAID 6)
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Appendix A. Additional Resources
Table 9. Resource Contact Information and Descriptions