Users Guide

Chapter 1: Overview...................................................................................................................... 6
PERC S130 specifications..................................................................................................................................................6
Supported operating systems...........................................................................................................................................8
Supported PowerEdge systems....................................................................................................................................... 8
Supported physical disks....................................................................................................................................................8
Management applications for the PERC S130..............................................................................................................9
Chapter 2: Physical Disks............................................................................................................ 10
Physical disk features....................................................................................................................................................... 10
Physical disk roaming.................................................................................................................................................. 10
Physical disk hot-swapping........................................................................................................................................10
Physical disk power management............................................................................................................................ 10
Physical disk failure detection...................................................................................................................................10
Mirror rebuilding........................................................................................................................................................... 10
Fault tolerance...............................................................................................................................................................11
Self-Monitoring And Reporting Technology........................................................................................................... 11
Native command queuing............................................................................................................................................11
4Kn drives support........................................................................................................................................................11
Physical disk write cache policy................................................................................................................................ 11
Linux RAID......................................................................................................................................................................12
Chapter 3: Virtual Disks............................................................................................................... 13
Virtual disk features...........................................................................................................................................................13
TRIM for SATA SSDs.................................................................................................................................................. 13
Disk initialization........................................................................................................................................................... 13
Background Array Scan.............................................................................................................................................. 14
Checkpointing............................................................................................................................................................... 14
Virtual disk cache policies.......................................................................................................................................... 14
Virtual disk migration...................................................................................................................................................15
Expanding virtual disk capacity.................................................................................................................................15
Chapter 4: Cabling the drives for S130......................................................................................... 17
Disk connectivity for AHCI devices............................................................................................................................... 18
Chapter 5: BIOS Configuration Utility......................................................................................... 20
Entering the BIOS Configuration Utility.......................................................................................................................20
Exiting the BIOS Configuration Utility...........................................................................................................................21
Initializing the physical disks............................................................................................................................................21
Converting to RAID disks........................................................................................................................................... 21
Converting to Non-RAID disks..................................................................................................................................21
Creating the virtual disks.................................................................................................................................................22
Selecting virtual disk sizes while creating a virtual disk ....................................................................................22
Deleting the virtual disks................................................................................................................................................. 22
Swapping two virtual disks............................................................................................................................................. 23
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