Perc H800; Led Indicators; Table 14. Storage Card Support Matrix - Dell PowerEdge R715 Technical Manual

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11.3.3 PERC H800

The PowerEdge R715 can support up to two PERC H800 adapter cards for access to external SAS
direct-attach storage. Features of the PERC H800 include:

LSI 2108 (Liberator) ROC

6 Gb/s SAS

PCIe Gen2 x8

800 MHz Core PPC

DDR2 800 mini-DIMM

Dual mini-SAS connectors

Supports connection to 6 Gb/s enclosures only
A maximum of 2 external storage controllers (PERC H800) are allowed in the system in addition to
the integrated storage controller.
For more information on storage controllers, see Table 14.
Product
PERC H700
Integrated
PERC
SAS/
SATA
PERC H800
Adapter
SAS HBA
SAS/ H200
SATA
SP5100 On Planar
SATA via chipset
LSI 2032 LSI 2032
SCSI Adapter

11.4 LED Indicators

Each disk drive carrier has two LED indicators visible from the front of the system. One is a green LED
for disk activity and the other is a bicolor (green/amber) LED for status information. The activity LED
is driven by the disk drive during normal operation. The bicolor LED is controlled by the SEP device
PowerEdge R715 Technical Guide
Storage Card Support Matrix
Table 14.
PowerEdge
Usage R715 Support
Internal
Backplane
Yes—Max 1
Storage RAID
(HDD, SSD)
Yes—Max 2
External (Red Devil and
SAS/SATA Blue Devil 6
Storage Gb/s
enclosures)
Internal
Backplane
Storage (No Yes—Max 1
tape nor SSD
support)
Internal slim-
line SATA
Yes—1 port for
Optical
Optical
(No HDD)
External SCSI
Tape/Legacy
Yes—Max 2
External
Storage
PCI PCI
Slot Con Bracket
Storage
x8 No
Slot
PCIe
x8 Yes
slot
Storage
x8 No
Slot
n/a n/a n/a
PCIe
x8 Yes
slot
IO Battery
Con RAID Back Up
0, 1, 5,
x4 int
6, 10, Yes
x2 int
50, 60
0, 1, 5,
x4 ext
6, 10, TBBU
x4 ext
50, 60
x4 int
0, 1 No
x2 int
x1 int n/a n/a
SCSI n/a n/a
ext
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