Dell EMC H745P MX - Default Chapter; Table of Contents

Contents
1 Overview........................................................................................................................................................8
Supported operating systems...........................................................................................................................................8
PERC card specications..................................................................................................................................................9
Management applications for PERC cards.....................................................................................................................9
Comprehensive embedded management ...............................................................................................................10
Dell OpenManage Storage Management................................................................................................................ 10
Related documentation....................................................................................................................................................10
2 Getting Started.............................................................................................................................................11
3 Features....................................................................................................................................................... 13
Controller features............................................................................................................................................................13
FastPath.......................................................................................................................................................................13
Disk roaming................................................................................................................................................................ 13
1 MB IO.........................................................................................................................................................................14
Physical disk power management.............................................................................................................................14
Secure rmware update.............................................................................................................................................14
Enhanced HBA mode................................................................................................................................................. 14
Non-RAID disks...........................................................................................................................................................15
Auto Congure RAID 0...............................................................................................................................................15
PERC H745P MX enclosure support....................................................................................................................... 15
PERC H840 enclosure support................................................................................................................................. 17
Prole Management................................................................................................................................................... 19
Virtual disk features..........................................................................................................................................................19
Virtual disk write cache policies............................................................................................................................... 20
Virtual disk read cache policies.................................................................................................................................20
Virtual disk migration.................................................................................................................................................. 21
Virtual disk initialization.............................................................................................................................................. 21
Reconguration of virtual disks................................................................................................................................22
Background operations..............................................................................................................................................24
Hard drive features.......................................................................................................................................................... 24
Self-Encrypting Disks................................................................................................................................................ 24
Instant Secure Erase..................................................................................................................................................25
4 KB sector disk drives..............................................................................................................................................25
Fault tolerance..................................................................................................................................................................25
The SMART feature...................................................................................................................................................25
Patrol Read................................................................................................................................................................. 26
Physical disk failure detection...................................................................................................................................26
Using persistent hot spare slots...............................................................................................................................26
Physical disk hot swapping....................................................................................................................................... 27
Using replace member and revertible hot spares...................................................................................................27
Controller cache preservation...................................................................................................................................27
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