Users Guide

Reconguration of virtual disks......................................................................................................................................30
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....................................................................................................................................... 35
Using replace member and revertible hot spares...................................................................................................36
Controller cache preservation.................................................................................................................................. 36
Battery Transparent Learn Cycle............................................................................................................................. 36
Non-RAID disks support............................................................................................................................................37
4 Deploying the PERC card.............................................................................................................................38
Removing the PERC H730P MX adapter card............................................................................................................ 39
Installing the PERC H730P MX adapter card...............................................................................................................40
Removing the PERC 9 adapter.......................................................................................................................................41
Installing the PERC 9 adapter........................................................................................................................................ 42
Removing the HBA330 mini monolithic controller....................................................................................................... 43
Replacing the battery of a H730P mini monolithic card........................................................................................44
Installing the HBA330 mini monolithic controller......................................................................................................... 46
Removing a H730P slim card....................................................................................................................................47
Installing a H730P slim card............................................................................................................................................49
Removing the PERC 9 mini blade controller................................................................................................................ 50
Replacing the tethered battery of a PERC 9 mini blade card............................................................................... 51
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
6 BIOS Conguration Utility........................................................................................................................... 62
Entering the BIOS Conguration Utility........................................................................................................................ 62
Exiting the Conguration Utility..................................................................................................................................... 62
Menu navigation controls................................................................................................................................................63
Setting up virtual disks....................................................................................................................................................64
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