Overview
The PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) 10 Series of cards consist of the H740P, H745P MX, and H840 cards. The PERC 10 family of
storage controller cards has the following characteristics:
• Complies with serial-attached SCSI (SAS) 3.0 providing up to 12 Gb/sec throughput.
• Supports Dell-qualied serial-attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives, SATA hard drives, and solid-state drives (SSDs).
NOTE: Mixing SAS and SATA drives within a virtual disk is not supported. Also, mixing hard drives and SSDs within a virtual
disk is not supported.
NOTE: Mixing disks of dierent speed (7,200 rpm, 10,000 rpm, or 15,000 rpm) and bandwidth (3 Gbps, 6 Gbps or 12 Gbps)
while maintaining the same drive type (SAS or SATA) and technology (HDD or SSD) is supported.
• Oers RAID control capabilities which include support for RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60.
• Provides reliability, high performance, and fault-tolerant disk subsystem management.
Topics:
• Supported operating systems
• PERC card specications
• Management applications for PERC cards
• Related documentation
Supported operating systems
The PERC 10 series cards support the following operating systems:
NOTE
: For more information on the supported operating systems supported by a specic server, see www.dell.com/support
• Microsoft
– Windows Server 2012 R2
– Windows Server 2016
– Windows Server 2019
• VMware
– ESXi 6.5 Update 2
– ESXi 6.7 Update 1
NOTE
: The PERC 10 driver for VMware ESXi is bundled with the VMware ISO image available from Dell. For more information,
see Dell.com/virtualizationsolutions.
• Linux
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6.10
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.5
– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 15
– XenServer 7.1.1
– Ubuntu 18.04.1
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