Dell H700, H800 manual Table of Contents

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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	Cut-Through IO		15
	4.4	Reconfiguring Virtual Disks		15
	4.5	Fault-Tolerance Features		16
	4.5.1		Non-Volatile Cache	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 Back-up of Controller Cache	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

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