Dell PERC H730 User Manual

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730

Eight-port 12Gbps PCI Express (PCIe) RAID controller supporting 3Gbps, 6Gbps and
12Gbps SAS or SATA hard-disk or solid-state drives.

As storage demands expand and processing loads

grow, it becomes increasingly more dicult for
administrators to achieve maximum performance
from their applications. The newest line of
Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller cards, built on

the LSI® SAS 3108 dual-core PowerPC® RAID-on-

Chip (ROC), oers unmatched I/O performance for

database applications and streaming digital media

environments.
The PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H730,

with eight internal ports, delivers two PowerPC

processor cores and a 72-bit DDR3 interface that
drives 1GB non-volatile cache memory. You can
deploy the PERC H730 in hard drive-based server
environments for signicant performance gains. If
you are implementing hybrid server platforms based
on solid-state storage, these next-generation PERCs
exploit the potential of solid-state drives (SSDs)
for unsurpassed performance and enterprise-class
reliability.

Enterprise data protection

Standard support for the most popular RAID levels,
including RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 50, RAID 60 and
NV Cache, further strengthen the data-protection
capabilities of the PERC H730. Dell’s NV Cache
technology backs up the data to non-volatile
memory in a power-loss event, and can store it
safely for a nearly unlimited period of time. The
H730 also supports non-RAID mode (pass-through)

for applications managing storage independently.

Benets include:

• iDRAC automatically creates and executes jobs

for each storage conguration operation

• Customer can reboot the host OS automatically

or schedule reboot for a later date.

• PERC H730 supports real-time RAID monitoring

and hardware inventory.

iDRAC incorporates Dell OpenManage™ Storage
Services (OMSS) which provides the tools to

eciently manage PERC products, including a
pre-boot setup utility and a full spectrum of online
RAID management utilities. This suite of applications
allows administrators to adjust SAS or SATA topology
views from the system host down to the logical
and physical drive level. Extending to enterprise

deployments, these tools can scale to easily

congure, monitor and manage RAID and JBOD
volumes locally or over the LAN network.

PowerEdge RAID

Controller H730

• Eight internal ports

Intuitive RAID management

Managing the PERC H730 is easy using the

integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)

with Lifecycle Controller. Without having to deploy
an agent, IT admins can congure, deploy, update
and monitor the PERC H730, via the GUI or through
Dell’s CLI (known as RACADM). Additionally, Dell’s
one-to-many OpenManage Essentials console
allows the user to perform storage operations across
multiple servers, including the RAID controllers as

well as the physical disks in the PowerEdge system
and external enclosures.

• 72-bit DDR3 interface drives 1GB

non-volatile cache memory

• Unsurpassed performance and
enterprise-class reliability