Broadcom 96 Series User Manual

Broadcom 96xx User Guide Broadcom
®
96xx PCIe 4.0, 24G SAS MegaRAID
™
and eHBA Tri-Mode Storage Adapters
Features
This chapter describes the features that the adapters support.
RAID and eHBA Features
The following sections list primary RAID and eHBA features that the adapters support. For a full description of the RAID
features, refer to the MegaRAID Tri-Mode Software User Guide, which can be found in the Support Documents and
Downloads section of the Broadcom website.
MegaRAID 9670W-16i, 9670-24i, and 9660-16i Adapter RAID Features
The MegaRAID 9670W-16i, MegaRAID 9670-24i, and MegaRAID 9660-16i adapters support the following RAID features:
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RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 6
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RAID spans 10, 50, and 60
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SAS/SATA drives: 240
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NVMe SSDs: 32
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JBOD physical drive (PD) state for SDS environments
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Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)
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Auto resume after loss of system power during array rebuild or OCE
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Single controller multipathing
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Load balancing
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Fast initialization for quick array setup
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Check Consistency for background data integrity
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SSD support with SSD Guard
™
technology
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Patrol read for media scanning and repairing
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Sixty-four virtual drive support
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Disk data format (DDF)-compliant Configuration on Disk (COD)
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Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T) support
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Global and dedicated hot spare with revertible hot spare support:
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Automatic rebuild
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Enclosure affinity
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Emergency SATA hot spare for SAS arrays
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Enclosure management support:
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Universal Backplane Management (UBM)
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SES (inband)
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SGPIO (sideband)
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VPP
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DataBolt bandwidth optimizer technology support for compatible expander-based enclosures
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Shield state drive diagnostic technology
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MegaRAID SafeStore
™
software for SED key management
MegaRAID 9620-16i eHBA Features
The MegaRAID 9620-16i adapter supports the following features:
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Broadcom 96 Series Specifications

General

Brand	Broadcom
Model	96 Series
Category	Adapter
Language	English