Document Outline

• Safety Instructions
  • General Safety Instructions
  • When Working Inside Your System
  • Protecting Against Electrostatic Discharge
  • Battery Disposal
• Overview
  • PERC H700 and H800 Card Descriptions
    • PCI Architecture
  • Operating System Support
  • RAID Description
    • Summary of RAID Levels
    • RAID Terminology
• Storage Controller Features
  • Physical Disk Power Management
  • Using the SMART Feature
  • Initializing Virtual Disks
    • Background Initialization of Virtual Disks
    • Full Initialization of Virtual Disks
    • Fast Initialization of Virtual Disks
  • Consistency Checks
  • Disk Roaming
  • Disk Migration
    • Compatibility With Virtual Disks Created on PERC 6 and H200 Cards
    • Migrating Virtual Disks From PERC 6 or H200 to PERC H700 and H800
  • Virtual Disk Write Cache Policies
    • Write-Back and Write-Through
    • Conditions Under Which Write-Back is Employed
    • Conditions Under Which Write-Through is Employed
    • Conditions Under Which Forced Write-Back With No Battery is Employed
  • Virtual Disk Read Cache Policies
  • Reconfiguring Virtual Disks
  • Fault Tolerance Features
    • Using Persistent Hot Spare Slots
    • Physical Disk Hot Swapping
    • Failed Physical Disk Detection
    • Redundant Path With Load Balancing Support
    • Using Replace Member and Revertible Hot Spares
    • Controller Cache Preservation
    • Cache Preservation With Battery
    • Cache Preservation With Non-Volatile Cache (NVC)
    • Cache Data Recovery
    • Battery Learn Cycle
  • Patrol Read
• Installing and Configuring Hardware
  • Installing the PERC H700 and H800 Adapters
  • Removing the PERC H700 and H800 Adapters
  • Removing and Installing the PERC H700 Modular Card in Dell Blade Systems
  • Removing the DIMM From a PERC H700
  • Installing the DIMM on a PERC H700
  • Replacing the BBU on a PERC H700
  • Removing the TBBU or TNVC From a PERC H800 Adapter
  • Replacing the Battery and Battery Cable Onto the DIMM of a PERC H800 Adapter
  • Installing the TBBU or TNVC on a PERC H800 Adapter
  • Transferring a TBBU or TNVC Between PERC H800 Cards
  • Setting up Redundant Path Support on the PERC H800 Adapter
  • Reverting From Redundant Path Support to Single Path Support on the PERC H800 Adapter
• Driver Installation
  • Installing Windows Drivers
    • Creating the Driver Media
    • Pre-Installation Requirements
    • Installing Driver During a Windows Server 2003 Operating System Installation
    • Installing Driver During a Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 Installation
    • Installing Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003 for a New RAID Controller
    • Updating Existing Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003
  • Installing Linux Driver
    • Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System Using the DUD
    • Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Using the Driver Update Diskette
    • Installing the RPM Package With DKMS Support
  • Installing Solaris Driver
    • Installing Solaris 10 on a PowerEdge System Booting From a PERC H700 or H800 Card
    • Adding or Updating the Driver to an Existing System
• Configuring and Managing RAID
  • Dell OpenManage Storage Management
  • BIOS Configuration Utility
    • Entering the BIOS Configuration Utility
    • Exiting the Configuration Utility
    • Menu Navigation Controls
    • Setting Up Virtual Disks
  • Virtual Disk Management
    • Creating Virtual Disks
    • Initializing Virtual Disks
    • Checking Data Consistency
    • Importing or Clearing Foreign Configurations Using the VD Mgmt Menu
    • Importing or Clearing Foreign Configurations Using the Foreign Configuration View Screen
    • Managing Preserved Cache
    • Managing Dedicated Hot Spares
    • Deleting Virtual Disks
    • Deleting Disk Groups
    • Clearing the Configuration
    • BIOS Configuration Utility Menu Options
  • Physical Disk Management
    • Setting LED Blinking
    • Creating Global Hot Spares
    • Removing Global or Dedicated Hot Spares
    • Replacing an Online Physical Disk
    • Stopping Background Initialization
    • Performing a Manual Rebuild of an Individual Physical Disk
  • Controller Management
    • Enabling Boot Support
    • Enabling BIOS Stop on Error
    • Enabling Auto Import
    • Restoring Factory Default Settings
• CacheCade
  • CacheCade Virtual Disk Characteristics
  • Configuring and Managing CacheCade Virtual Disks
    • CacheCade Virtual Disk Management
    • Create CacheCade Virtual Disk
    • Delete CacheCade Virtual Disk
    • Reconfiguring CacheCade Virtual Disks
• Security Key and RAID Management
  • Security Key Implementation
  • Configuring and Managing Secured Virtual Disks
    • BIOS Configuration Utility Security Menu Options
    • Security Key Management
    • Creating Secured Virtual Disks
    • Securing Pre-Existing Virtual Disks
    • Importing or Clearing Secured Foreign Configurations and Secure Disk Migration
    • Instant Secure Erase
  • Troubleshooting Security Key Errors
    • Secured Foreign Import Errors
    • Failure to Select or Configure Non Self-Encrypting Disks (non-SED)
    • Failure to Delete Security Key
    • Failure to Instant Secure Erase Task on Physical Disks
• Troubleshooting
  • Post Error Messages
  • Degraded State of Virtual Disks
  • Memory Errors
  • Preserved Cache State
  • General Issues
  • Physical Disk Related Issues
  • Physical Disk Failures and Rebuild Issues
  • SMART Errors
  • Replace Member Errors
  • Linux Operating System Errors
  • Disk Carrier LED Indicators
• Regulatory Notices
• Corporate Contact Details (Taiwan Only)
• Glossary
• Index