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Contents

1 Overview.................................................................................................................9

Supported Operating Systems............................................................................................................10

Getting help..........................................................................................................................................11

Contacting Dell.............................................................................................................................. 11

Related Documentation.................................................................................................................11

Documentation feedback..............................................................................................................12

2 Features................................................................................................................ 13

Physical Disk Power Management......................................................................................................13

Configured spin down delay......................................................................................................... 13

Types Of Virtual Disk Initialization...................................................................................................... 14

Background Initialization Of Virtual Disks.................................................................................... 14

Full Initialization Of Virtual Disks...................................................................................................14

Fast Initialization Of Virtual Disks..................................................................................................14

Consistency Checks............................................................................................................................ 15

Disk roaming........................................................................................................................................15

Using disk roaming........................................................................................................................ 15

FastPath................................................................................................................................................15

Configuring FastPath-Capable Virtual Disks................................................................................ 16

Virtual Disk Migration.......................................................................................................................... 16

Migrating Virtual Disks................................................................................................................... 17

Virtual Disk Write Cache Policies........................................................................................................ 17

Write-Back And Write-Through....................................................................................................18

Conditions under which write-back is employed........................................................................18

Conditions under which forced write-back with no battery is employed..................................18

Virtual Disk Read Cache Policies........................................................................................................ 18

Reconfiguration Of Virtual Disks.........................................................................................................18

Fault Tolerance.................................................................................................................................... 21

The SMART feature..............................................................................................................................21

Automatic Replace Member With Predicted Failure.................................................................... 21

Patrol Read.......................................................................................................................................... 22

Redundant Path Support (For PERC H810 Only)............................................................................... 22

Physical disk failure detection............................................................................................................ 23

Using Persistent Hot Spare Slots........................................................................................................ 23

Physical Disk Hot Swapping................................................................................................................23

Using replace member and revertible hot spares..............................................................................23

Controller Cache Preservation...........................................................................................................24

Cache Preservation With NVC......................................................................................................24