Dell PERC H830 User Manual

PERC H830 DATA SHEET

POWEREDGE RAID CONTROLLER H830

Eight-port (2- x4 connectors) external 12Gbps SAS solution for performance-hungry external storage environments supporting up to 192 SAS hard-disk or solid-state drives.

As storage demands expand and processing loads grow, it becomes increasingly more difcult for administrators to achieve maximum performance and scale from their applications. The newest line of Dell EMC PERC cards, built on the

LSI® 3108 dual-core PowerPC® RAID-On-Chip (ROC), offers unmatched I/O performance for database applications and

streaming digital media environments.

The PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H830, with eight external ports (2- x4 connectors), delivers two PowerPC processor cores and a 72-bit DDR3 interface that drives 2GB cache memory. This controller is ideal for conguring external storage enclosures with high-performance SAS hard drives and application-accelerating solid state drives. The PERC H830 exploits the potential of 12Gbps SAS SSDs for unsurpassed performance and enterprise class reliability.

Enterprise data protection

Standard support for the most popular RAID levels, including RAID 5 and RAID 6, further strengthen the data protection capabilities of the PERC H830. Dell EMC’s Flash Backed Cache or NV Cache technology allows protection of the cache for a nearly unlimited period of time. The H830 also supports non-RAID mode (pass-through) for applications that manage the storage independently.

Sophisticated DAS topologies

The PERC H830 can easily be connected and deployed within new 12Gb/s SAS environments to further simplify direct attached storage (DAS) scale management and reduce single point of failures common in expanded DAS environments. The PERC H830 is unique in that it offers higher levels of connectivity, simplied management and features and benets typically available only in higher-end storage network congurations.

Intuitive RAID management

Managing the PERC H830 is easy using the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9 (iDRAC9) with Lifecycle Controller. Without having to deploy an agent, IT admins can congure, deploy, update, and monitor the PERC H830, via the GUI or through Dell EMC’s CLI known as RACADM. Additionally, Dell EMC’s one-to-many OpenManage 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. Benets include:

• iDRAC automatically creates and executes jobs for each storage conguration operation.

• Customer can do it Real-Time or schedule reboot for a later date.

• PERC H830 supports real-time RAID monitoring and hardware inventory.

Customers can also use Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator/ Storage Services (OMSS) tools to efciently manage PERC products, including a pre-boot setup utilities and a full spectrum of online RAID management utilities. This suite of applications allow administrators to adjust SAS 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 H830

• Eight external ports

• 72-bit DDR3 interface

drives

• 2GB non-volatile

cache memory

• Unsurpassed

performance and

enterprise-class

reliability

PowerEdge PERC H830

Features Technical Specication

Solution provided Eight-port (2- x4 connectors) external SAS solution for performance-hungry external storage environments

Physical dimensions 167.6mm (6.6in) x 64.4mm (2.5in) (low prole)

Connectors Two mini-SAS HD external SFF8644

Host bus type 8-lane, PCI Express 3.0 compliant

Data transfer rates Up to 12Gb/s per port

SAS controller LSI SAS 3108 1200MT/s PowerPC 476 dual-core 12Gbps ROC

Cache size 2GB 1866MT/s DDR3 SDRAM

Key RAID & data

protection features

RAID management CTRL-R

Operating temperature Maximum ambient temperature: 60°C

Operating voltage +3.3V

Optional SSD

optimization

Operating systems Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP1

Warranty Up to ve-year warranty available for controller (up to the length of purchased system warranty)

RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 6 RAID spans 10, 50, and 60 Non-RAID (JBOD mode) Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) Online RAID Level Migration (RLM) Auto-resume on rebuild or reconstruction Single controller multipathing

Load balancing

Congurable stripe size up to 1MB Fast initialization for quick array setup

Dell OpenManage Storage

Services PERC CLI

Additional management: UEFI (HII) CEM

Check Consistency for background data integrity 3Gb/s, 6Gb/s & 12Gb/s SAS SSD support SED drive support Physical disk power management (Dimmer Switch™) 4K native sector support Support UNMAP command S.M.A.R.T. support Global and dedicated hot-spare with Revertible Hot-Spare support

• Automatic rebuild of hot-spare drives

• Enclosure afnity

Dell FastPath™ rmware feature: delivers high IOPs performance on SSD arrays

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R1 & R2

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

Three-year warranty for battery

Virtualization options: VMware® ESXi 5.1 VMware 6.0

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