Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge RAID Controller 10 User’s Guide PERC H345, H740P, H745, H745P MX, and H840
- Contents
- Overview
- Getting Started
- Features
- Controller features
- Virtual disk features
- Hard drive features
- Fault tolerance
- Operating system device enumeration
- Controller mode
- Non-RAID disk
- Deploying the PERC card
- Removing the PERC H345 adapter
- Installing the PERC H345 adapter
- Removing the PERC H345 front card
- Installing the PERC H345 front card
- Removing the PERC H740P adapter
- Installing the PERC H740P adapter
- Removing the PERC H740P mini monolithic
- Installing the PERC H740P mini monolithic
- Removing the PERC H745 adapter
- Installing the PERC H745 adapter
- Removing the PERC H745 front card
- Installing the PERC H745 front card
- Removing the PERC H745P MX adapter card
- Installing the PERC H745P MX adapter card
- Removing the PERC H840 card
- Installing the PERC H840 card
- Part replacement of a PERC card in eHBA mode
- Part replacement of a PERC card in RAID mode with another in eHBA mode
- Driver installation
- Creating the device driver media
- Windows driver installation
- Installing the driver during a Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer installation
- Installing the driver after Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer installation
- Updating PERC 10 driver for existing Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer
- Linux driver installation
- Firmware
- HII configuration utility
- Entering the HII configuration utility
- Exiting the HII configuration utility
- Navigating to Dell PERC 10 configuration utility
- HII Configuration utility dashboard view options
- Configuration management
- Controller management
- Virtual disk management
- Physical disk management
- Hardware components
- Security key management in the HII configuration utility
- Security key and RAID management
- Security key implementation
- Local Key Management
- Creating security key
- Changing Security Settings
- Disabling security key
- Create secured virtual disk
- Secure non-RAID disks
- Secure preexisting virtual disk
- Importing secure virtual disk
- Import secured non-RAID disk
- Dell EMC OpenManage Secure Enterprise Key Manager
- Troubleshooting
- Single virtual disk performance or latency in hypervisor configurations
- Adapter at baseport not responding error message
- BIOS disabled error message
- Configured disks removed or not accessible error message
- Dirty cache data error message
- Discovery error message
- Drive Configuration Changes Error Message
- Windows operating system installation errors
- Firmware fault state error message
- Extra enclosure error message
- Foreign configuration found error message
- Foreign configuration not found in HII error message
- Degraded state of virtual disks
- Memory errors
- Preserved Cache State
- Security key errors
- General issues
- Physical disk issues
- Physical disk in failed state
- Unable to rebuild a fault tolerant virtual disk
- Fatal error or data corruption reported
- Physical disk displayed as blocked
- Multiple disks are inaccessible
- Rebuilding data for a failed physical disk
- Virtual disk fails during rebuild using a global hot spare
- Dedicated hot spare disk fails during rebuild
- Redundant virtual disk fails during reconstruction
- Virtual disk fails rebuild using a dedicated hot spare
- Physical disk takes a long time to rebuild
- SMART errors
- Replace member errors
- Linux operating system errors
- Drive indicator codes
- HII error messages
- Appendix RAID description
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Appendix RAID description
RAID is a group of independent physical disks that provides high performance by increasing the number of disks used for saving
and accessing data.
CAUTION: In the event of a physical disk failure, a RAID 0 virtual disk fails, resulting in data loss.
A RAID disk subsystem offers the following benefits:
● Improved I/O performance and data availability.
● Improved data throughput because several disks are accessed simultaneously. The physical disk group appears either as a
single storage unit or multiple logical units to the host system.
● Improved data storage availability and fault tolerance. Data loss caused by a physical disk failure can be recovered by
rebuilding missing data from the remaining physical disks containing data or parity.
Topics:
• Summary of RAID levels
• RAID 10 configuration
• RAID terminology
Summary of RAID levels
Following is a list of the RAID levels supported by the PERC 10 series of cards:
● RAID 0 uses disk striping to provide high data throughput, especially for large files in an environment that requires no data
redundancy.
● RAID 1 uses disk mirroring so that data written to one physical disk is simultaneously written to another physical disk. RAID 1
is good for small databases or other applications that require small capacity and complete data redundancy.
● RAID 5 uses disk striping and parity data across all physical disks (distributed parity) to provide high data throughput and
data redundancy, especially for small random access.
● RAID 6 is an extension of RAID 5 and uses an additional parity block. RAID 6 uses block-level striping with two parity blocks
distributed across all member disks. RAID 6 provides protection against double disk failures, and failures while a single disk is
rebuilding. If you are using only one array, deploying RAID 6 is more effective than deploying a hot spare disk.
● RAID 10 is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1, uses disk striping across mirrored disks. It provides high data throughput and
complete data redundancy.
● RAID 50 is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 5 where a RAID 0 array is striped across RAID 5 elements. RAID 50 requires at
least six disks.
● RAID 60 is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 6 where a RAID 0 array is striped across RAID 6 elements. RAID 60 requires at
least eight disks.
The following table lists the minimum and maximum disks supported on each RAID levels.
Table 18. Minimum and maximum disks supported on each RAID levels
RAID Level Minimum disk Maximum disk
0 1 32
1 2 2
5 3 32
6 4 32
10 4 240
50 6 240
60 8 240
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