Storage Controllers; Sas 6/Ir; Perc 6/I; Perc H200 - Dell PowerEdge T310 Technical Manual

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Cabled/ Config
Hot-plug Type
Hot-plug SAS/SATA
—RAID1 +
RAID1
Hot-plug SAS/SATA
—RAID1 +
RAID1
Additional restrictions for RAID configurations are listed as follows:
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Hard drives must be all 3.5‖ or 2.5‖
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Hard drives must be all SAS, all SATA, or all SSD; hard drives cannot be mixed
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SSD support requires PERC 6/I, H200, or H700; PERC S100, SAS 6i/R, and PERC S300 do not
support SSD
PERC S100 and PERC S300 do not support the following:
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Microsoft Hyper-V™ server 2008 x64
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Microsoft Windows Server
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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64 (Hyper-V™ role enabled)
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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (Microsoft Windows
(Hyper-V role enabled)
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Linux operating systems or VMware

12.3 Storage Controllers

12.3.1 SAS 6/iR

The T310 internal SAS 6/iR HBA is an expansion card that installs into the dedicated internal storage
slot. It incorporates two four-channel SAS IOCs for connection to SAS or SATA hard disk drives.

12.3.2 PERC 6/i

The PERC 6/i uses the LSI 1078 ROC (RAID on Chip) processor with a PCI Express host interface and
DDR2 memory, and it installs into the dedicated internal storage slot. A battery is also available for
backup.

12.3.3 PERC H200

The H200 SAS HBA is an expansion card that installs into the dedicated internal storage slot. It
incorporates two four-channel 6 Gb/s SAS IOCs for connection to SAS hard disk drives.

12.3.4 PERC H700

The PERC H700 card has its own processor with a PCI Express Gen2 host interface and DDR2 memory
and installs into the dedicated internal storage slot. A battery is also available for backup. It
supports the internal 6 Gb/s backplane interface for internal storage options (SAS, SATA, or SSD HDD).
The PowerEdge T310 supports both 512MB and 1GB cache options on the internal H700.
PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide
Configs Description
C22 ASSR1R1 Add-in SAS/SATA RAID card, RAID 1
+ RAID 1 (S300)
C23 ASSR1R1 Add-in SAS/SATA RAID card, RAID 1
+ RAID 1 (SAS 6/iR, PERC 6/i,
H200, or H700)
download version)
(
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2008 x64 (Hyper-V™ role enabled)
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virtualization software
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7 includes SP2 bits) x64
Min Max
HDD HDD
2 + 2 2 + 2
2 + 2 2 + 2
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