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
Chapter 1: Overview...................................................................................................................... 8
Supported operating systems...........................................................................................................................................8
PERC card specifications.................................................................................................................................................. 9
Management applications for PERC cards.................................................................................................................. 10
Comprehensive Embedded Management...............................................................................................................10
Dell OpenManage Storage Management................................................................................................................ 11
Chapter 2: Getting Started.......................................................................................................... 12
PERC H345 front card......................................................................................................................................................12
PERC H345 adapter.......................................................................................................................................................... 13
PERC H740P adapter........................................................................................................................................................13
PERC H745 front card......................................................................................................................................................14
PERC H745 adapter.......................................................................................................................................................... 15
PERC H745P MX card......................................................................................................................................................15
PERC H840 adapter card.................................................................................................................................................16
Chapter 3: Features..................................................................................................................... 17
Controller features.............................................................................................................................................................17
1 MB I/O......................................................................................................................................................................... 17
Auto Configure RAID 0................................................................................................................................................17
Disk roaming.................................................................................................................................................................. 17
FastPath ........................................................................................................................................................................ 18
PERC H745P MX enclosure support....................................................................................................................... 18
Non-RAID disks.............................................................................................................................................................19
Physical disk power management........................................................................................................................... 20
PERC H840 enclosure support................................................................................................................................ 20
Profile Management....................................................................................................................................................22
Secure firmware update............................................................................................................................................ 22
Snapdump......................................................................................................................................................................22
Virtual disk features..........................................................................................................................................................22
Virtual disk write cache policies............................................................................................................................... 23
Virtual disk read cache policies................................................................................................................................ 23
Virtual disk migration.................................................................................................................................................. 24
Virtual disk initialization..............................................................................................................................................24
Reconfiguration of virtual disks............................................................................................................................... 25
Background operations...............................................................................................................................................27
Hard drive features........................................................................................................................................................... 27
Self-Encrypting Disks................................................................................................................................................. 27
Instant secure erase................................................................................................................................................... 28
4 KB sector disk drives.............................................................................................................................................. 28
Fault tolerance................................................................................................................................................................... 28
The SMART feature....................................................................................................................................................28
Patrol Read................................................................................................................................................................... 29
Physical disk failure detection.................................................................................................................................. 29
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