Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H710 - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Overview.......................................................................................................................................9
Supported Operating Systems ................................................................................................................................10
Getting Help ............................................................................................................................................................ 10
Contacting Dell .................................................................................................................................................11
Related Documentation ....................................................................................................................................11
Documentation Feedback ................................................................................................................................ 11
2 Features...................................................................................................................................... 13
Physical Disk Power Management .........................................................................................................................13
Configured Spin Down Delay ........................................................................................................................... 13
Types Of Virtual Disk Initialization .......................................................................................................................... 14
Background Initialization Of Virtual Disks ........................................................................................................14
Full Initialization Of Virtual Disks ......................................................................................................................14
Fast Initialization Of Virtual Disks .....................................................................................................................14
Consistency Checks ................................................................................................................................................14
Disk Roaming .......................................................................................................................................................... 15
Using Disk Roaming ..........................................................................................................................................15
FastPath .................................................................................................................................................................. 15
Configuring FastPath-Capable Virtual Disks .................................................................................................... 15
Virtual Disk Migration ............................................................................................................................................. 16
Migrating Virtual Disks .....................................................................................................................................16
Virtual Disk Write Cache Policies ...........................................................................................................................17
Write-Back And Write-Through .......................................................................................................................17
Conditions Under Which Write-Back Is Employed .......................................................................................... 17
Conditions Under Which Forced Write-Back With No Battery Is Employed ................................................... 17
Virtual Disk Read Cache Policies ............................................................................................................................18
Reconfiguration Of Virtual Disks .............................................................................................................................18
Fault Tolerance .......................................................................................................................................................20
The SMART Feature ................................................................................................................................................20
Automatic Replace Member With Predicted Failure ....................................................................................... 20
Patrol Read ............................................................................................................................................................. 21
Redundant Path Support (For PERC H810 Only) ......................................................................................................21
Physical Disk Failure Detection ..............................................................................................................................22
Using Persistent Hot Spare Slots ............................................................................................................................22
Physical Disk Hot Swapping ...................................................................................................................................22
Using Replace Member And Revertible Hot Spares ...............................................................................................22
Controller Cache Preservation ............................................................................................................................... 23
Cache Preservation With Non-Volatile Cache (NVC) ...................................................................................... 23