Users Guide

Chapter 1: Overview...................................................................................................................... 6
PERC S150 specifications..................................................................................................................................................6
Supported operating systems...........................................................................................................................................8
Supported PowerEdge systems.......................................................................................................................................9
Supported physical disks................................................................................................................................................... 9
Management applications for the PERC S150............................................................................................................. 9
Chapter 2: Physical Disks............................................................................................................. 11
Physical disk features........................................................................................................................................................ 11
Physical disk roaming................................................................................................................................................... 11
Physical disk hot-swapping........................................................................................................................................ 11
Physical disk power management............................................................................................................................. 11
Physical disk failure detection....................................................................................................................................11
Mirror rebuilding........................................................................................................................................................... 12
Fault tolerance.............................................................................................................................................................. 12
Self-Monitoring And Reporting Technology.......................................................................................................... 12
Native Command Queuing......................................................................................................................................... 12
NVMe PCIe SSD support........................................................................................................................................... 12
Physical disk write cache policy for SATA drives................................................................................................. 13
Linux RAID......................................................................................................................................................................13
Chapter 3: Virtual Disks............................................................................................................... 14
Virtual disk features...........................................................................................................................................................14
TRIM for SATA SSDs.................................................................................................................................................. 14
Disk initialization................................................................................................................................................................. 15
Background Array Scan.................................................................................................................................................... 15
Checkpointing..................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Consistency check....................................................................................................................................................... 15
Background initialization.............................................................................................................................................15
Automatic virtual disk rebuild.................................................................................................................................... 15
Virtual disk cache policies................................................................................................................................................ 16
Virtual disk migration.........................................................................................................................................................16
Migrating a virtual disk................................................................................................................................................16
Expanding virtual disk capacity.......................................................................................................................................17
Chapter 4: Cabling the drives for the S150...................................................................................18
Disk connectivity for AHCI devices...............................................................................................................................20
Chapter 5: BIOS Configuration Utility.......................................................................................... 21
Entering the BIOS configuration utility.........................................................................................................................21
Exiting the BIOS Configuration Utility..........................................................................................................................22
Initializing the physical disks........................................................................................................................................... 22
Converting to RAID disks...........................................................................................................................................22
Converting to Non-RAID disks................................................................................................................................. 22
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