Conditions under which write-back is employed........................................................................31
Conditions under which forced write-back with no battery is employed..................................31
Virtual disk read cache policies...........................................................................................................31
Reconfiguration of virtual disks..........................................................................................................32
Fault tolerance.................................................................................................................................... 34
The SMART Feature.......................................................................................................................34
Patrol Read.....................................................................................................................................35
Physical disk failure detection.......................................................................................................35
Using persistent hot spare slots....................................................................................................35
Physical disk hot swapping...........................................................................................................36
Using replace member and revertible hot spares........................................................................36
Controller cache preservation......................................................................................................36
Battery Transparent Learn Cycle...................................................................................................37
Non-RAID disks support................................................................................................................37
4 Deploying the PERC card..................................................................................39
Removing the PERC 9 adapter...........................................................................................................39
Installing the PERC 9 adapter..............................................................................................................41
Removing the PERC 9 mini monolithic controller.............................................................................41
Replacing the battery of a H730P mini monolithic card.............................................................42
Installing the PERC 9 mini monolithic controller..............................................................................44
Removing a H730P slim card............................................................................................................. 45
Replacing the battery of a H730P slim card.................................................................................46
Installing a H730P slim card............................................................................................................... 48
Removing the PERC 9 mini blade controller.....................................................................................48
Replacing the tethered battery of a PERC 9 mini blade card......................................................49
Installing the PERC 9 mini blade controller....................................................................................... 53
Removing the PERC FD33xD Card.....................................................................................................54
Replacing the battery of a PERC FD33xD card............................................................................ 55
Installing the PERC FD33xD card....................................................................................................... 56
5 Driver installation............................................................................................... 58
Creating the device driver media....................................................................................................... 58
Downloading drivers from the Dell support website...................................................................58
Downloading drivers from the Dell systems service and diagnostic tools media .....................59
Windows driver installation.................................................................................................................59
Installing the driver during a Windows Server 2008 R2 and newer installation.........................59
Installing the driver after Windows Server 2008 R2 and newer installation ..............................59
Updating PERC 9 driver for existing Windows Server 2008 R2 and newer................................60
Linux driver installation.......................................................................................................................60
Installing or updating the RPM driver package with KMOD support...........................................61
Installing or updating the RPM driver package with KMP support..............................................61
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