HPE 698533-B21 Getting Started Guide
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HPE Smart Array P830 Controller
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HPE Smart Array P830 Controller
The HPE Smart Array P830 Controller is a full height, half length, 12 Gb/s SAS capable, PCIe 3.0, RAID controller that provides
enterprise class storage performance for select
SAS/SATA lanes each supporting 12 Gb/s or 6 Gb/s SAS or SATA protocol. Advanced storage functional
Data Mirroring, Advanced Data Guarding, dual domain, makes it easier to protect the data.
HPE Smart Array P830 Controller
Models
HPE Smart Array P830/4GB FBWC 12Gb 2-ports Int SAS Controller (Extended)
698533-B21
HPE ProLiant Gen8 rack servers and tower servers. It features 16 physical
ity, such as Advanced
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The Smart Array
Advantage
The HPE innovative design and integration work of the Smart Array family of products creates
customer value that is unmatched in the industry. Use of Smart Array products across multiple
applications results in a much lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) than any other server storage RAID
product. The HPE Smart Array family brings an unparalleled return on investment through:
Data Compatibility among all models of Smart Array controllers allows simple and easy upgrades any
time needs for higher performance, capacity, and availability increase. Even successive generations of
Smart Array controllers understand the data format of other Smart Array Controllers.
Consistent Configuration and Management Tools. Most current shipping Smart Array products
utilize a standard set of management and utility software. These tools minimize Total Cost of
Ownership (TCO) by reducing training requirements and tec
maintain the HPE server storage.
Smart Carrier is used across multiple Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers. With compatibility across
many enterprise platforms, you are free to deploy and re
increased storage capacity, migrate data between systems, and easily manage spare drives.
Pre-Failure Warranty means HPE Insight Manager not only reports when a drive is going to fail but
allows replacement of failing drives prior to act
Support Center or refer to your HPE Server documentation.
Key Features
• The P830 Controller supports up to 16 drives without expander; for example on a DL38x
match SAS and SATA drives. Deploy drive technology as needed to fit the computing
based
SSA), Systems Insight Manager (SIM), Array
Ports
• 16 SAS/SATA physical links distributed across 2 double wide Mini SAS 8i connectors
ual failure. For complete details, consult the HPE
Gen8 server that comes with 8 SFF drives can scale their internal storage by adding an
additional 8 SFF drive cage connected to Smart Array P830
• Seamless upgrades to and from other HPE Smart Array controllers.
• 16 SAS/SATA physical links distributed across 2 double wide Mini SAS 8i connectors for
attachment to internal drive backplanes
• 12 Gb/s SAS performance when used on a DL580 Gen8 with 12 Gb/s devices (HDD or SSD)
• 6 Gb/s SAS technology delivers up to 600 MB/s per physical link.
• 6 Gb/s SATA technology delivers up to 600 MB/s for directly attached SATA drives.
• Mix-and-
environment.
• PCI-e 3.0 8x host interface provides up to 8 GiB/s in each direction
• 4GB battery-backed write cache (not all of which is available for user data)
• Standard on the P830 are RAID 6 ADG, RAID 60 ADG, RAID 1 ADM, Capacity Expansion,
mirror split, recombine, and rollback in Online Mode, Drive Erase, Performance OptimizationDegraded Reads and Read Coalescing, Move/Delete any individual LUNS and Online Split
Mirror.
• Capable of supporting both legacy and UEFI boot operation on a DL580 Gen8 server
• Recovery ROM protects against ROM corruption
• The HPE SSD Smart Path feature included in the Smart Array software stack improves SSD
read for all RAID levels and RAID 0 write operations by optimizing the path to each SSD
attached to the controller.
• The HPE SmartCache feature (already included with the P830 controller) is a controller-
read caching solution in a DAS environment that caches the most frequently accessed data
("hot" data) onto lower latency SSDs to dynamically accelerate application workloads.
• The HPE Secure Encryption, available as an option, is a Smart Array controller-based data
encryption solution for ProLiant Gen 8 servers that protects sensitive, mission critical data.
• Consistent management software among most current shipping HPE Smart Array products,
including HPE Smart Storage Administrator (HPE
Diagnostic Utility (ADU), and Intelligent Provisioning
hnical expertise necessary to install and
-deploy these drives to quickly deliver
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Performance
• 12 Gb/s SAS (1200 MB/s theoretical bandwidth per physical lane) on a DL580 Gen8
RAID Levels
• RAID 6 (Advanced Data Guarding): Supported with a minimum of 4 drives. This allocates two
(Distributed Data Guarding): Supported with a minimum of 3 drives. This allocates one
were a single physical drive. Each RAID 5 parity group can sustain a single drive failure without
the drive array to the data and the other half to the mirrored data, providing two copies of the
Online Management
Features
• Online array expansion
Availability
Provides increased server uptime by providing advanced storage functionality:
• Online logical drive extension
• 6 Gb/s SAS (600MB/s theoretical bandwidth per physical lane)
• x8 6 Gb/s SAS physical lane (compatible with 6 Gb/s SATA )
• 4 GiBytes 72-bit wide DDR3-1866 Flash Back Write Cache provides up to 14.9 GB/s
maximum cache bandwidth
• PCI Express Gen3 x8 link width
• Read ahead caching
• Write-back caching
sets of parity data across drives. This level of fault tolerance can withstand a double drive
failure without downtime or data loss.
• RAID 60: Supported with a minimum of 8 drives. This volume is composed of two or more
RAID 6 sub-volumes (parity groups) where data is striped across each parity group as if it
were a single physical drive. Each RAID 6 parity group can sustain up to two drive failures
without incurring data loss.
• RAID 5
set of parity data across drives. This level of fault tolerance can withstand a single drive failure
without downtime or data loss.
• RAID 50: Supported with a minimum of 6 drives. This volume is composed of two or more
RAID 5 sub-volumes (parity groups) where data is striped across each parity group as if it
incurring data loss.
• RAID 1 & 10 (Drive Mirroring): Supported with a minimum of 2 drives. This allocates half of
data.
• RAID 1 ADM & 10 ADM (Advanced Data Mirroring): Supported with a minimum of 3 drives.
RAID 1 ADM creates redundant copies of the data using 3 drives. RAID 10 ADM stripes data
across two or more sets of RAID 1 ADM volumes. This level of fault tolerance can withstand a
double drive failure within a RAID 1 ADM volume without downtime or data loss.
• Online capacity expansion
• Online logical drive extension
• Online RAID level migration
• Online stripe size migration
• Online mirror split, recombine and rollback
• Online and high performance offline Rapid Parity Initialization (RPI)
• Unlimited global online spare assignment
• User selectable expand and rebuild priority
• User selectable RAID level and stripe size
• User selectable read and write cache sizes
• Supports Predictive Spare Activation
• Online RAID level migration between any RAID levels
• Online stripe size migration
• Online capacity expansion
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• Online active drive replacement
Fault Prevention
The following features offer detection of possible failures before they occur, allowing preventive action
to be taken:
Fault Recovery
Minimizes downtime, reconstructs data, and facilitates a quick recovery from drive failure
corruption. A new version of firmware can be flashed to the ROM while the controller maintains
the controller will
Ease of Use
Consistency and Upgradeability on most current shipping Smart Array products make them unique in
the industry:
HPE SSD SmartPath
The HPE SSD Smart Path feature included in the Smart Array software stack improves Solid State Disk
(SSD) read performance by up to 4x.
accelerates reads for all RAID levels and RAID 0 writes.
HPE Smart Array SR
SmartCache
(optional license)
The HPE Smart Array SR SmartCache feature is a controller-based read and write caching solution in a
DAS environment that caches the most frequently accessed data ("hot" data) onto lower latency SSDs
to dynamically accelerate application workloads. The SmartCache architecture is flexible and supports
any HPE ProLiant Gen10 HDD for bulk storage and SSD as an accelerator. SmartCache is deployed and
managed using the HPE Smart Storage Administrator (HPE SSA). SmartCache requires an optional
license (see Related Options section below for more information on the license).
For additional information please visit: http://www.hpe.com/servers/smartcache.
• Online drive firmware upgrade
• Unlimited global online spare
• S.M.A.R.T.: Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology first developed at Hewlett
Packard Enterprise servers detects possible hard disk failure before it occurs, allowing
replacement of the component before failure occurs.
• Drive Parameter Tracking monitors drive operational parameters, predicting failure and
notifying the administrator.
• Dynamic Sector Repairing continually performs background surface scans on the hard disk
drives during inactive periods and automatically remaps bad sectors, ensuring data integrity.
• Smart Array Cache Tracking monitors integrity of controller cache, allowing pre-failure
preventative maintenance.
• Recovery ROM: This feature provides unique redundancy that protects from a ROM image
the last known working version of firmware. If the firmware becomes corrupt,
revert back to the previous version of firmware and continue operating. This reduces the risk
of flashing firmware to the controller.
• On-Line Spares: There is no limit to the number of spare drives that can be installed prior to
drive failure. If a failure occurs, recovery begins with an On-Line Spare and data is
reconstructed automatically.
• DRAM ECC corrects against single bit data and address corruption.
• GUI based configuration, management and diagnostic software tools with the HPE Smart
Storage Administrator
• Common data format between generations of products
• Data migration between servers and external Modular Smart Array enclosures
HPE SSD Smart Path chooses the optimum path to the SSD and
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