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Chapter 1: Dell Technologies PowerEdge RAID Controller 11.......................................................... 8

Features of PERC H755 adapter..................................................................................................................................... 9

Features of PERC H755 front SAS................................................................................................................................. 9

Features of PERC H755N front NVMe........................................................................................................................ 10

Technical specifications of PERC 11 cards................................................................................................................... 11

Operating systems supported by PERC 11....................................................................................................................11

Chapter 2: Applications and User Interfaces supported by PERC 11..............................................13

Comprehensive Embedded Management ................................................................................................................... 13

Dell OpenManage Storage Management......................................................................................................................13

Human Interface Infrastructure Configuration Utility............................................................................................... 13

The PERC Command Line Interface..............................................................................................................................14

Chapter 3: Features of PowerEdge RAID Controller 11..................................................................15

Controller features.............................................................................................................................................................15

Non-Volatile Memory Express...................................................................................................................................15

Opal Security Management....................................................................................................................................... 16

Hardware Root of Trust ............................................................................................................................................ 16

1 MB I/O......................................................................................................................................................................... 16

Auto Configure RAID 0............................................................................................................................................... 16

Disk roaming.................................................................................................................................................................. 16

FastPath......................................................................................................................................................................... 17

Non–RAID disks............................................................................................................................................................ 17

Physical disk power management.............................................................................................................................17

Profile Management.....................................................................................................................................................17

Secure firmware update............................................................................................................................................. 18

Snapdump...................................................................................................................................................................... 18

Virtual disk features...........................................................................................................................................................18

Virtual disk write cache policy...................................................................................................................................18

Virtual disk read cache policy.................................................................................................................................... 19

Virtual disk migration...................................................................................................................................................19

Virtual disk initialization.............................................................................................................................................. 19

Reconfiguration of virtual disks............................................................................................................................... 20

Background operations.............................................................................................................................................. 22

Hard drive features........................................................................................................................................................... 22

Self-Encrypting Disks................................................................................................................................................. 22

Instant secure erase....................................................................................................................................................23

4 KB sector disk drives...............................................................................................................................................23

Fault tolerance................................................................................................................................................................... 23

The SMART feature....................................................................................................................................................23

Patrol Read................................................................................................................................................................... 24

Physical disk failure detection.................................................................................................................................. 24

Controller cache.......................................................................................................................................................... 25

Battery Transparent Learn Cycle............................................................................................................................ 26

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