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 difficult 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), offer 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 non-
volatile memory in a power-loss event, and can store it safely for a nearly unlimited period of time.
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
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 efficiently manage PERC products, whether deployed in an enterprise or small business. Dell offers 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
•72-bit DDR4-2133 DRAM interface with 8GB non-volatile cache memory
•Unsurpassed performance and enterprise-class reliability
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