HPE 759557-B21 Getting Started Guide

QuickSpecs

HPE Smart Array P542D Controller

Overview

HPE Smart Array P542D Controller

The HPE Smart Array P542D Controller is a PCI-Express (PCIe) 3.0 mezzanine, 12Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID controller that supports Synergy advanced RAID capabilities. power failure. It features eight external physical links and eight internal physical links module uptime by providing advanced storage functionality, including online RAID leve and pre-failure alert.

Models

HPE Smart Array P542D/2GB FBWC 12Gb Mezzanine SAS Controller

759557-B21

HPE Smart Array P542D/2GB Controller for ProLiant XL270d Gen9 Server

851508-B21

Kit Contents

HPE Smart Array P542D/2GB FBWC 12Gb Mezzanine SAS Controller

759557-B21

The Smart Storage Battery and SAS cable are not included with this HPE Smart Array P542D Controller (759557 configured in RAID mode. thus The SAS cable is only required when attaching to the

HPE Smart Array P542D/2GB Controller for ProLiant XL270d Gen9

Server

851508-B21

The Smart Storage Battery and SAS cable for the internal drives on ProLiant XL270d server are

included with this HPE Smart Array P542D Controller (851508-B21).

internal and direct attached storage. It provides enterprise-level reliability, connectivity, and performance for HPE

compute and storage modules, and HPE ProLiant XL270d server through its support of the latest SCSI technology and

The controller supports 2GB flash-backed write cache (FBWC) to maximize data retention in case of a

within four ports to deliver increased compute

l migration with FBWC, global online spare,

-B21). The Smart Storage Battery is required by the Smart Array P542D Controller when

Only one Smart Storage Battery is required per Synergy Compute Module,

you can use the Smart Storage Battery that was included with the Smart Array P240nr controller.

internal compute SAS/NVMe backplane.

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QuickSpecs

HPE Smart Array P542D Controller

Standard Features

Key Features

• Storage interface (SAS/SATA)

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• Rapid rebuild

Ports

• Internal:

• External:

Performance

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

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• Write-back caching

Online Management Features

• Online array expansion

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• Pre-Failure Alerts

Fault Prevention

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

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during inactive periods and automatically remaps bad sectors, ensuring data integrity.

– 16 physical links 2 x4 internal ports and 2 x4 external ports – 12Gb/s SAS, 6GB/s SATA technology – Mix-and-match SAS and SATA drives to the same controller – 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, 1 ADM, 10 ADM RAID or HBA mode Legacy and UEFI boot operation Up to 71 physical drives Up to 64 logical drives HPE SmartCache (optional license) HPE Secure Encryption (optional license) HPE SSD Smart Path

6Gb/s SATA (600 MB/s theoretical bandwidth per physical lane) PCI Express Gen3 x8 link width 2 GiBytes 72-bit wide DDR3-1866MHz Flash-Backed Write Cache provides up to 12.8GB/s

maximum cache bandwidth

Read ahead 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

S.M.A.R.T.: Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology first developed at Hewlett Packard

Enterprise detects possible hard disk failure before it occurs, allowing replacement of the component before failure occurs.

Dynamic Sector Repairing continually performs background surface scans on the hard disk drives

8 SAS/SATA physical links across 2 x4 ports

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QuickSpecs

HPE Smart Array P542D Controller

Standard Features

• Smart Array Cache Tracking monitors integrity of controller cache, allowing pre-failure

preventative maintenance.

Fault Recovery

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

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• DRAM ECC detects and corrects data bit errors.

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 ( dynamically accelerate application workloads. The supports any HPE SmartCache is an opt

Related Options

HPE

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 that protects sensitive, mission critical data. This is an enterprise attached to the controller. (see

The solution is available for both local and remote key management mode deployments. Local Key Management Mode is focused on single server deployment where there is one Master key per controller that is managed by the user. Remote Key Management Mode deployments from just a few servers to thousands of servers.

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

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 up to 4x better SSD read performance, HPE SSD Smart Path chooses the optimum path to the SSD and accelerates reads for all RAID levels an Smart Path requires updated firmware, drivers, and configuration utility available at:

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

in disabled for HPE SSD Smart path to be operational.

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.

"hot" data) onto lower latency SSDs to

HPE SmartCache architecture is flexible and

server supported HDD for bulk storage and any server supported SSD as an accelerator.

ional license (see

SmartCache is deployed and managed using the HPE Smart Storage Administrator (HPE SSA).

-class encryption solution for data at rest on any bulk storage

HPE Smart Array P542D controller including data on the cache memory of the

HPE Secure Encryption is an optional license per server requiring encryption enablement

Related Options for more information on the license).

for more information on the license).

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

cluded as a base feature on HPE Smart Array P-series controllers. Please note, FBWC must be

is for enterprise wide

d RAID 0 writes. HPE SSD

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