Users Guide

Specication Description

Hardware XOR engine Yes

Virtual disk initialization; background, full, and fast Yes

Consistency check Yes

Disk roaming Yes

FastPath Yes

Virtual disk migration between two Shared PERC

8 cards

Yes

NOTE: The target Shared PERC 8 card rmware level must be either higher

or equal to the source Shared PERC 8 card rmware level.

Virtual disk migration from PERC H310, H710, or

H710P cards to a Shared PERC 8 card

SMART detection Yes

Patrol Read Yes

Automatic replace member Yes

SAS (HDD/SSD) hard drive Yes

Physical disk power management IDLE-C for compliant HDDs only. No support for balanced, maximum, and customized

power savings.

SATA (HDD/SSD) hard drive No

Manual replace member No

Online capacity expansion No

Cachecade No

Local Key Management (LKM) Yes

PCIe hot plug of controller PCIe Hot Add only supported with Shared PERC 8 External card

Multipath support Required for systems with Fault Tolerant Shared PERC 8 card conguration.

Controller failover Available only for systems with Fault Tolerant Shared PERC 8 card conguration.

Operating temperature of a Shared PERC 8 card

Table 2. Operating temperature

specications

Specications Operating temperature

Maximum ambient 60°C

Maximum battery operating

temperature

60°C

Maximum controller (ROC)

operating temperature

115°C

Supported operating systems

The Shared PERC 8 card supports the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

About the Shared PERC 8 card