Dell PERC H710p User Manual
Dell PowerEdge RAID
Controller H710P
An eight-port 6Gb/s PCI Express RAID controller, the Dell PowerEdge RAID
Controller (PERC) H710P supports up to thirty-two 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SATA or SAS
hard-disk drives or solid-state drives.
As storage demands expand and processing loads
grow, it becomes increasingly more dicult for
administrators to achieve maximum performance
from their applications. The newest line of
Dell™ PowerEdge™ RAID Controller cards, built on
the LSISA2208 dual-core PowerPC
RAID-on-Chip (ROC), oer unmatched I/O
performance for database applications and streaming
digital media environments.
The PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H710P, with
eight internal ports, delivers two PowerPC processor
cores and a 72-bit DDR3 interface that drives 1 GB
cache memory. You can deploy the PERC H710P in
hard-drive-based server environments for significant
performance gains. If you are implementing hybrid
server platforms based on solid-state storage, these
next-generation PERCs exploit the potential of solidstate drives (SSDs) for unsurpassed performance and
enterprise-class reliability.
Advanced software options
The Dell family of 6Gb/s PowerEdge RAID
Controllers is designed to support advanced software
options for the Dell PowerEdge server family
with enhanced performance and data protection
capabilities. These new software options can help
you to address key business challenges while helping
to deliver a higher return on your IT investments.
The PERC CacheCade™ software and Dell’s Cut
Through I/O (CTIO) feature boost transactional I/O
performance of both rotational hard-drive and SSD
configurations.
Enterprise data protection
Standard support for the most popular RAID levels
and accessories, including RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID
50, RAID 60 and NVCache, further strengthen the
data-protection capabilities of the PERC H710P. Dell’s
NVCache technology backs up the data to nonvolatile storage in a power-loss event, and can store it
safely for a nearly unlimited period of time.
Intuitive RAID management utility
Dell OpenManage™ Storage Services (OMSS)
provides the essential tools to eciently manage
PERC products, whether deployed in an enterprise or
small business. Dell oers a collection of applications
and tools, including a pre-boot setup utility and a full
spectrum of online RAID management utilities. This
suite of applications allow administrators to adjust
SAS or SATA topology views from the system host,
controller and disk enclosure down to the logical
and physical drive level. Extending to enterprise
deployments, these tools can scale to easily
configure, monitor and manage RAID and JBOD
volumes locally or over the LAN network.
The PERC H710P
supports up to
thirty-two 3Gb/s and
6Gb/s SATA or SAS
Dell’s FastPath™ software feature enables the use of
the second core on our PowerPC chip to accelerate
write-through I/O, which significantly enhances SSD
performance.
February 2012
hard-disk drives or
solid-state drives.
Feature PERC H710P technical specification
Solution provided
Physical dimensions
Connectors
Eight-port internal SATA+SAS solution supporting up to 32 hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs)
167.6mm (6.6in) x 64.4mm (2.5in) (MD2 low profile)
Two internal mini-SAS SFF8088
Device support
Host bus type
Data transfer rates
SAS controller
Cache size
Key RAID data protection
features
RAID management
Operating temperature
Operating voltage
Optional SSD optimization
Operating systems
Warranty
Up to 32 (SAS, SATA)
8-lane, PCI Express 2.0 compliant
Up to 6Gb/s per port
LSISAS2208 dual-core PowerPC ROC
1GB
RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6
RAID spans 10, 50, 60
Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)
Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)
Auto resume after power loss during array
rebuild or reconstruction/RLM
Consistency check for background data
integrity
Physical disk power management (Dimmer
Switch™)
SED drive support
CTRL-R
Dell OpenManage™ Storage Services
Additional management:
UEFI (HII)
CEM
Maximum ambient temperature: 60°C
+3.3V
CacheCade™ software: provides boost in READs from SSD cache
Dell FastPath™ software: delivers high IOPs performance on SSD arrays
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP2
®
Enterprise Linux® 5.7
Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux® 6.1
Red Hat
®
Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
SUSE
®
Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
SUSE
Virtualization options:
®
ESX/ESXi 4.1
VMware
®
5.0 UL
VMware
Up to five-year warranty available for controller (up to the length of purchased system warranty)
Three-year warranty for battery
Load balancing
Fast initialization for quick array setup
Configurable stripe size up to 1MB
SSD support
Patrol read for media scanning and repairing
Up to 64 logical drive and 64TB LUN support
DDF compliant Configuration on Disk (COD)
S.M.A.R.T. support
Global and dedicated hot spare with revertible hot-spare
support: automatic rebuild, enclosure anity, emergency SATA
Global services and support
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