Dell PERC H740P User Manual
Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H740P
An eight-port 12Gb/s PCI Express RAID controller, the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC)
H740P supports 6Gb/s and 12Gb/s SAS or SATA hard-disk drives and 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
LSISA3508 dual-core ARM A15 RAID-On-Chip
(ROC), oer unmatched I/O performance for
database applications and streaming digital media
environments.
The PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H740P, with
eight internal ports delivers two high performance
ARM A15 processor cores and integrates a 72-bit,
DDR4-2133 DRAM interface that drives 8GB nonvolatile cache memory.1 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, and RAID 60
further strengthen the data-protection capabilities
of the PERC H740P. Dell’s Flash Backed Cache or
NVCache technology backs up the data to nonvolatile memory in a power-loss event, and can store
it safely for a nearly unlimited period of time.
the GUI or RACADM interface. This includes the
RAID controllers as well as the physical disks in the
PowerEdge system and external JBOD enclosures.
iDRAC benefits include:
• Create VDs, Expand VDs, migrate RAID levels in
real-time or stage it to do at a later time.
• Support real time RAID monitoring and inventory
of hardware RAID connected to the server.
Customers can also use Dell OpenManage™ Server
Administrator / Storage Services (OMSS,) which
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 utilities 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.
PowerEdge RAID
Controller H740P
• Eight internal ports
Intuitive RAID management
Managing the PERC H740P is easy using the
integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9 (iDRAC9)
with Lifecycle Controller. Without having to deploy
an agent, IT admins can configure, deploy, update,
and monitor the PERC H740P, either via the GUI
or through Dell’s CLI known as RACADM. With
the release of iDRAC9, customers have the ability
to perform real-time storage operations through
• 72-bit DDR4-2133 DRAM
interface with 8GB non-volatile
cache memory
• Unsurpassed performance
and enterprise-class reliability
PowerEdge H740P
Features Technical Specification
Solution provided
Form factor PCIe Adapter Card and Mini Monolithic
Connectors
Device support 32 SAS/SATA Devices (PowerEdge Server Largest Drive Configuration)
Host bus type 8-lane, PCI Express 3.1 compliant
Data transfer rates Up to 12Gbp/s per port
SAS controller LSISAS 3508 Dual Core ARM A15 Processor - ROC (RAID-On-Chip)
Cache memory 1MB Shared L2 Cache. 6MB On Chip Memory
Key RAID & data
protection features
Eight-port internal SATA+SAS solution supporting 6Gb/s and 12Gb/s SAS/SATA hard disk drives
(HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs)
Two internal HD Mini-SAS SFF8643
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™)
4K native sector support
NVRAM “Wipe” feature protects proprietary data
once card is decommissioned
SED drive support
Load balancing
Fast initialization for quick array setup
Configurable stripe size up to 1MB
Patrol read for media scanning and repair
Up to 64 Virtual Drives
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, and
emergency SATA
RAID management Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator/Storage Services
Operating temperature Maximum ambient temperature: 60°C
Operating voltage
iDRAC9
PERC CLI
Additional management:
UEFI (HII)
CEM
+3.3V, +12V and +3.3V_Aux
2
Optional SSD
optimization
Operating systems
Warranty
H740P will ship with matching 8GB DRAM & NV Cache. 4GB will be enabled at launch with the additional 4GB enabled through a firmware release post launch.
Silicon supports up to 240
Dell FastPath™ firmware feature: delivers high IOPs performance on SSD arrays
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2016
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6.5
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 7.0 or later
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12
Virtualization options:
VMware® 6.0
VMware® 6.5
3-Year Standard Warranty. Up to five-year warranty available for controller & battery with extended warranty.
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