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Consistency Checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Disk Roaming
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Disk Migration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Compatibility With Virtual Disks Created
on PERC 6 and H200 Cards
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Migrating Virtual Disks From PERC 6 or
H200 to PERC H700 and H800 . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Virtual Disk Write Cache Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Write-Back and Write-Through
. . . . . . . . . . . 29
Conditions Under Which
Write-Back is Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Conditions Under Which
Write-Through is Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Conditions Under Which Forced Write-Back
With No Battery is Employed
. . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Virtual Disk Read Cache Policies
. . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Reconfiguring Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Fault Tolerance Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Using Persistent Hot Spare Slots
. . . . . . . . . . 34
Physical Disk Hot Swapping
. . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Failed Physical Disk Detection
. . . . . . . . . . . 34
Redundant Path With Load
Balancing Support
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using Replace Member and
Revertible Hot Spares. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Controller Cache Preservation
. . . . . . . . . . . 36
Cache Preservation With Battery
. . . . . . . . . . 37
Cache Preservation With
Non-Volatile Cache (NVC)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Cache Data Recovery
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Battery Learn Cycle
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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