HPE 726736-B21, 726740-B21 Getting Started Guide

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HPE Smart Array P440ar Controller

Overview

HPE Smart Array P440ar Controller

The HPE Smart Array P440ar Controller is a Flexible Smart Array, 12Gb/s SAS RAID controller that provides enterprise-class storage performance, increased internal scalability with SAS Expander Card, and data protection rack and tower servers. It features eight internal physical links and delivers increased server uptime by providing advanced storage functionality, including online RAID level migration between any RAID levels with flash backed write cache (FBWC), global online spare, and pre

The Gen9 family of controllers supports the controllers are supported without needing additional backup p process.

Models

HPE Smart Array P440ar Controller

HPE Smart Array P440ar/2GB FBWC 12Gb 2-ports Int SAS Controller

726736-B21

controller and will require the HPE Smart Storage Battery and therefore included.

for specific HPE ProLiant Gen9

-failure warning.

HPE Smart Storage Battery. With HPE Smart Storage Battery, multiple Smart Array

ower sources for each controller, resulting in simple upgrade

NOTE: HPE Smart Array P440ar/2GB FBWC controller option kit includes the HPE Smart Storage Battery the backup power

source necessary to protect the data on the Flash-backed Write Cache as the P440ar will generally be your default P-series

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QuickSpecs

HPE Smart Array P440ar Controller

Standard Features

Key Features

• Storage interface (SAS/SATA)

o Dimension: 5.3 x 4.1 x 1.2 in (13.46 x 10.414 x 3.05 cm)

Ports

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Performance

• 12Gb/s SAS (1200 MB/s theoretical bandwidth per physical lane)

1866 Flash Back Write Cache provides up to 14.9GB/s maximum

Online Management Features

• Online array expansion

Fault Prevention

The following features offer detection of possible failures before they occur, allowing preventive action to be taken:

o 8 physical links across 2 x4 internal ports o 12Gb/s SAS, 6Gb/s SATA technology o Mix-and-match SAS and SATA drives to the same controller o Support for SAS tape drives, SAS tape autoloaders and SAS tape libraries

• 2 GiBytes Flash-Backed Write Cache (FBWC)

• PCI Express Gen3 x8 link

• RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60, 10 ADM (Advanced Data Mirroring)

• RAID or HBA mode

• Legacy and UEFI boot operation

• Up to 200 physical drives

• Up to 64 logical drives

• HPE SmartCache (optional license)

• HPE Secure Encryption (optional license)

• HPE SSD Smart Path

• VMware Virtual SAN certified

• Rapid Parity Initialization (RPI)

• Rapid rebuild

• Drive Erase

• Performance Optimization-Degraded Reads and Read Coalescing

• Power Efficiency

• Seamless upgrades to and from other HPE Smart Array controllers

• Flexible Smart Array controller (Daughter Card)

Internal: 8 SAS/SATA physical links across 2 x4 ports

• 6Gb/s SATA (600 MB/s theoretical bandwidth per physical lane)

• PCI Express Gen3 x8 link width

• 2 GiBytes 72-bit wide DDR3-

cache bandwidth

• Read ahead caching

• Write-back caching

• Online capacity expansion

• Online logical drive extension

• Online RAID level migration

• Online stripe size migration

• Online mirror split, recombine, and rollback

• Online active drive replacement

• Online drive firmware upgrade

• Online and high performance offline Rapid Parity Initialization (RPI)

• Unlimited global online spares 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

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QuickSpecs

HPE Smart Array P440ar Controller

Standard Features

Fault Recovery

Minimizes downtime, reconstructs data, and facilitates a quick recovery from drive failure

HPE SmartCache

The HPE 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 HPE SmartCache architecture is flexible and supports any HPE ProLiant Gen9 supported HDD supported SSD as an accelerator. HPE SmartCache is deployed and managed using the HPE Smart Storage Administrator (HPE SSA). HPE SmartCache is an optional license (see Related Options for more information on the l

For more information please visit: http://www.hpe.com/servers/smartcache.

HPE Secure Encryption

HPE Secure Encryption is a Smart Array controller-based data encryption solution for ProLiant Gen9 servers that protects sensitive, mission critical data. This is an enterprise data at rest on any bulk storage attached to the HPE Smart Array controllers including data on the cache memory of the controller. HPE Secure encryption enablement (see Related Options for more information on the license).

The solution is available for both local and remote key management mode deployments. Local Key Management Mode is focuse controller that is managed by the user. Remote Key Management Mode is for enterprise wide deployments from just a few servers to thousands of servers.

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HPE SSD Smart Path

The HPE SSD Smart Path feature included in the Smart Array software stack improves Solid State Disk (SSD) read performance. With u the optimum path to the SSD and accelerates reads for all RAID levels and RAID 0 writes. HPE SSD Smart Path requires updated firmware, drivers, and configuration utility available at:

http://www.hpe.com/servers/ssa

included as a base feature on HPE Smart Array P-series controllers.

Warranty

The warranty for this device is 3 years parts only.

• S.M.A.R.T. (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) was first developed by HPE

which 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 protects the user from a firmware image corruption by storing a

redundant copy of the firmware image. If the active firmware image becomes corrupt, the controller will use the redundant firmware image and continue operating.

• 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 detects and corrects data bit errors

for bulk storage and any HPE ProLiant Gen9

icense).

Encryption is an optional license per server requiring

d on single server deployment where there is one Master key per

http://www.hpe.com/servers/secureencryption

p to 4x better SSD read performance, HPE SSD Smart Path chooses

. HPE SSD Smart Path is ideal for read intensive workloads and is

-class encryption solution for

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