Dell PERC H700 Manuals

Table of Contents

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    Table of Contents

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  1 Safety Instructions

  • 11

    General Safety Instructions
  • 12

    When Working Inside Your System
  • 12

    Protecting against Electrostatic Discharge
  • 13

    Battery Disposal

• 15

  2 Overview

  • 15

    PERC H700 and H800 Card Descriptions
    • 16

      PCI Architecture
  • 16

    Operating System Support
  • 17

    RAID Description
    • 17

      Summary of RAID Levels
    • 18

      RAID Terminology
    • 20

      Physical Disks

• 21

  3 Storage Controller Features

  • 24

    Physical Disk Power Management
  • 24

    Using the SMART Feature
  • 25

    Initializing Virtual Disks
    • 25

      Background Initialization of Virtual Disks
    • 25

      Full Initialization of Virtual Disks
    • 26

      Fast Initialization of Virtual Disks
  • 26

    Consistency Checks
  • 26

    Disk Roaming
  • 27

    Disk Migration
    • 28

      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
  • 29

    Virtual Disk Write Cache Policies
    • 29

      Write-Back and Write-Through
    • 29

      Conditions Under Which Write-Back Is Employed
    • 30

      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
  • 31

    Reconfiguring Virtual Disks
  • 33

    Fault Tolerance Features
    • 34

      Using Persistent Hot Spare Slots
    • 34

      Physical Disk Hot Swapping
    • 34

      Failed Physical Disk Detection
    • 35

      Redundant Path with Load Balancing Support
    • 35

      Using Replace Member and Revertible Hot Spares
    • 36

      Controller Cache Preservation
    • 37

      Cache Preservation with Battery
    • 37

      Cache Preservation with Non-Volatile Cache (NVC)
    • 37

      Cache Data Recovery
    • 38

      Battery Learn Cycle
    • 38

      Patrol Read

• 41

  4 Installing and Configuring Hardware

  • 41

    Installing the PERC H700 and H800 Adapters
  • 46

    Removing the PERC H700 and H800 Adapters
  • 49

    Removing and Installing the PERC H700 Modular Card in Dell Blade Systems
  • 51

    Removing the DIMM From a PERC H700
  • 53

    Installing the DIMM On a PERC H700
  • 56

    Replacing the BBU On a PERC H700
  • 58

    Removing the TBBU or TNVC From a
  • 58

    PERC H800 Adapter
  • 60

    Replacing the Battery and Battery Cable Onto
  • 60

    The DIMM of a PERC H800 Adapter
  • 61

    Installing the TBBU or TNVC On a PERC H800 Adapter
  • 63

    Transferring a TBBU or TNVC Between PERC H800 Cards
  • 64

    Setting Up Redundant Path Support On the PERC H800 Adapter
  • 67

    Reverting From Redundant Path Support to Single Path Support On the PERC H800 Adapter

• 69

  5 Driver Installation

  • 69

    Installing Windows Drivers
    • 69

      Creating the Driver Media
    • 70

      Pre-Installation Requirements
    • 71

      Installing Driver During a Windows Server 2003 Operating System Installation
    • 72

      Installing Driver During a Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 Installation
    • 72

      Installing Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003 for a New RAID Controller
    • 73

      Updating Existing Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003
  • 74

    Installing Linux Driver
    • 76

      Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System Using the DUD
    • 77

      Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Using the Driver Update Diskette
    • 78

      Installing the RPM Package with DKMS Support
  • 79

    Installing Solaris Driver
    • 80

      Installing Solaris 10 On a Poweredge System
    • 80

      Adding or Updating the Driver to an Existing System

• 81

  6 Configuring and Managing RAID

  • 81

    Dell Openmanage Storage Management
  • 82

    BIOS Configuration Utility
    • 82

      Entering the BIOS Configuration Utility
    • 83

      Exiting the Configuration Utility
    • 83

      Menu Navigation Controls
    • 85

      Setting Up Virtual Disks
  • 88

    Virtual Disk Management
    • 88

      Creating Virtual Disks
    • 91

      Initializing Virtual Disks
    • 91

      Checking Data Consistency
    • 92

      Importing or Clearing Foreign Configurations Using the VD Mgmt Menu
    • 93

      Importing or Clearing Foreign Configurations Using the Foreign Configuration View Screen
    • 96

      Managing Preserved Cache
    • 97

      Managing Dedicated Hot Spares
    • 98

      Deleting Virtual Disks
    • 98

      Deleting Disk Groups
    • 99

      Clearing the Configuration
    • 99

      BIOS Configuration Utility Menu Options
  • 108

    Physical Disk Management
    • 108

      Setting LED Blinking
    • 109

      Creating Global Hot Spares
    • 109

      Removing Global or Dedicated Hot Spares
    • 110

      Replacing an Online Physical Disk
    • 111

      Stopping Background Initialization
    • 111

      Performing a Manual Rebuild of an Individual Physical Disk
  • 112

    Controller Management
    • 112

      Enabling Boot Support
    • 113

      Enabling BIOS Stop On Error
    • 113

      Enabling Auto Import
    • 114

      Restoring Factory Default Settings

• 115

  7 Cachecade

  • 115

    Cachecade Virtual Disk Characteristics
  • 116

    Configuring and Managing Cachecade Virtual Disks
    • 116

      Cachecade Virtual Disk Management
    • 116

      Create Cachecade Virtual Disk
    • 118

      Delete Cachecade Virtual Disk
    • 118

      Reconfiguring Cachecade Virtual Disks

• 121

  8 Security Key and RAID Management

  • 121

    Security Key Implementation
  • 121

    Configuring and Managing Secured Virtual Disks
    • 121

      BIOS Configuration Utility Security Menu Options
    • 122

      Security Key Management
    • 125

      Creating Secured Virtual Disks
    • 126

      Securing Pre-Existing Virtual Disks
    • 126

      Importing or Clearing Secured Foreign Configurations and Secure Disk Migration
    • 128

      Instant Secure Erase
  • 128

    Troubleshooting Security Key Errors
    • 128

      Secured Foreign Import Errors
    • 129

      Failure to Select or Configure Non Self-Encrypting Disks (Non-Sed)
    • 129

      Failure to Delete Security Key
    • 129

      Failure to Instant Secure Erase Task On Physical Disks

• 131

  9 Troubleshooting

  • 131

    Post Error Messages
  • 141

    Degraded State of Virtual Disks
  • 141

    Memory Errors
  • 142

    Preserved Cache State
  • 142

    General Issues
  • 143

    Physical Disk Related Issues
  • 144

    Physical Disk Failures and Rebuild Issues
  • 146

    SMART Errors
  • 147

    Replace Member Errors
  • 148

    Linux Operating System Errors
  • 151

    Disk Carrier LED Indicators

• 153

  A Regulatory Notices

• 155

  B Corporate Contact Details (Taiwan Only)

• 157

  Glossary

• 175

  Index