Dell PERC S130 - Default Chapter; Table of Contents

Contents
1 Overview......................................................................................................................... 6
PERC S130 specications...................................................................................................................................................6
Supported operating systems............................................................................................................................................. 7
Supported PowerEdge systems..........................................................................................................................................8
Supported physical disks.................................................................................................................................................... 8
Management applications for the PERC S130.................................................................................................................... 9
2 Physical Disks................................................................................................................10
Physical disk features........................................................................................................................................................10
Physical disk roaming.................................................................................................................................................. 10
Physical disk hot-swapping......................................................................................................................................... 10
Physical disk power management............................................................................................................................... 10
Physical disk failure detection......................................................................................................................................10
Mirror rebuilding..........................................................................................................................................................10
Fault tolerance............................................................................................................................................................. 11
Self-Monitoring And Reporting Technology..................................................................................................................11
Native command queuing............................................................................................................................................ 11
4Kn drives support.......................................................................................................................................................11
Physical disk write cache policy................................................................................................................................... 11
Linux RAID.................................................................................................................................................................. 12
3 Virtual Disks...................................................................................................................13
Virtual disk features...........................................................................................................................................................13
TRIM for SSDs............................................................................................................................................................13
Disk initialization.......................................................................................................................................................... 13
Background Array Scan...............................................................................................................................................14
Checkpointing............................................................................................................................................................. 14
Virtual disk cache policies............................................................................................................................................14
Virtual disk migration...................................................................................................................................................15
Expanding virtual disk capacity................................................................................................................................... 15
4 Cabling the drives for S130............................................................................................ 17
Disk connectivity for AHCI devices................................................................................................................................... 18
5 BIOS Conguration Utility.............................................................................................20
Entering the BIOS Conguration Utility............................................................................................................................ 20
Exiting the BIOS Conguration Utility................................................................................................................................21
Initializing the physical disks.............................................................................................................................................. 21
Converting to RAID disks............................................................................................................................................ 21
Converting to Non-RAID disks.................................................................................................................................... 21
Creating the virtual disks.................................................................................................................................................. 22
Selecting virtual disk sizes while creating a virtual disk .............................................................................................. 22
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