Table Of Contents - Dell PowerEdge User Manual

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1 Overview........................................................................................................................................................ 7

PERC S140 specifications................................................................................................................................................. 7

Supported operating systems...........................................................................................................................................9

Supported PowerEdge systems.......................................................................................................................................9

Supported physical disks................................................................................................................................................. 10

Management applications for the PERC S140..............................................................................................................10

2 Physical Disks............................................................................................................................................... 11

Physical disk features........................................................................................................................................................11

Physical disk roaming.................................................................................................................................................. 11

Physical disk hot-swapping........................................................................................................................................ 11

Physical disk power management............................................................................................................................. 11

Physical disk failure detection.................................................................................................................................... 11

Mirror rebuilding.......................................................................................................................................................... 12

Fault tolerance.............................................................................................................................................................12

Self-Monitoring And Reporting Technology............................................................................................................ 12

Native Command Queuing........................................................................................................................................ 12

NVMe PCIe SSD support.......................................................................................................................................... 12

Physical disk write cache policy for SATA drives.................................................................................................... 13

Linux RAID................................................................................................................................................................... 13

3 Virtual Disks................................................................................................................................................. 14

Virtual disk features.......................................................................................................................................................... 14

TRIM for SATA SSDs..................................................................................................................................................14

Disk initialization..........................................................................................................................................................15

Background Array Scan............................................................................................................................................. 15

Checkpointing............................................................................................................................................................. 15

Virtual disk cache policies.......................................................................................................................................... 16

Virtual disk migration.................................................................................................................................................. 16

Expanding virtual disk capacity................................................................................................................................. 17

4 Cabling the drives for S140...........................................................................................................................18

Disk connectivity for AHCI devices................................................................................................................................ 19

5 BIOS Configuration Utility........................................................................................................................... 20

Entering the BIOS configuration utility...........................................................................................................................21

Exiting the BIOS Configuration Utility............................................................................................................................ 21

Initializing the physical disks............................................................................................................................................ 21

Converting to RAID disks...........................................................................................................................................21

Converting to Non-RAID disks................................................................................................................................. 22

Creating the virtual disks.................................................................................................................................................22

Selecting virtual disk sizes while creating a virtual disk ........................................................................................22

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