Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 3 User's Guide

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller Cards H700 and H800 Technical Guide Enterprise-class controllers designed for performance, reliability, and faul

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 10 Other new features of the 6Gb/s SAS controllers will offer improved signal integrity and addition

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 11 3 Product Support 3.1 Dell PowerEdge Server Support The Dell PERC H700 and PERC H800 are suppor

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 12 Table 5. Operating System Support with PERC H700 and PERC H800 Supported Operating Systems Micro

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 13 4 Product Overview 4.1 PERC H700 and PERC H800 Overview Table 7. PERC H700 and PERC H800 Featu

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 14 Feature PERC H700 Integrated/Adapter PERC H700 Modular PERC H800 Adapter Physical Disk Power Mana

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 15 Feature PERC H700 Integrated/Adapter PERC H700 Modular PERC H800 Adapter Clustering Card and soft

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 16 Table 8. RAID Level Migration Source RAID Level Target RAID Level # of Physical Drives (Beginni

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 17  Physical disk rebuild using hot spares  Enclosure affinity  Parity generation and checking

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 18 being a ready hot spare. This allows hot spares to remain in specific enclosure slots. While the

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 19 4.7 Disk Roaming The PERC H700 and H800 cards support moving physical disks from one cable conne

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 2 This document is for informational purposes only. Dell reserves the righ

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 20 4.10 Virtual Disk Write Cache Policies The write cache policy of a virtual disk determines how t

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 21 5 RAID Overview 5.1 About RAID RAID is a way of storing data on multiple independent physical d

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 22 For example, a four-drive virtual disk may be configured with 16 stripes (four stripes of designa

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 23 Figure 5. Example of RAID 1 (Mirrori

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 24 Figure 6. Example

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 25 Figure 7. Example of RAID 6 (Si

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 26 Figure 8. Example of RAID 10 (1 + 0) Advantages of RAID 10  RAID 10 has the

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 27 Figure 9. Example of RAID 50 (5 + 0) Advantages of RAID 50  Allows creation of largest RAID

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 28 Figure 10. Example of RAID 60 (6 + 0) Advantages of RAID 60  Allows creation of largest R

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 29 Appendix A. Additional Resources Table 9. Resource Contact Information and Descriptions Type Of

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 3 Table of Contents 1 Product Comparison ...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 4 5.3.5 RAID 10 (Striping over Mirrored Sets) ...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 5 1 Product Comparison 1.1 Overview The PERC H700 (internal) and PERC H800 (external) RAID control

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 6 1.2 PERC H700 Overview The PERC H700 internal host-RAID product offers three different models to

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 7 Figure 2. PERC H700 Modular 1.3 PERC H800 Overview The PERC H800 external host-RAID product i

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 8 Figure 3. PERC H800 Adapter

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 9 2 New Features 2.1 Overview The PERC H700 and PERC H800 offer the new CacheCade feature: • Prod