Dell H800- Manuals

** Available in Q3 2010 6 4 Product Support 4.1 Host-RAID Adapter Support The PowerVault™ MD1200 and MD1220 require the PERC H800 for Server connectivity. The PERC H800 is a PCIe 2.0, dual port (2 x4), hardware RAID controller offering 512MB standard battery-backed cache and RAID level support for R...

** Available in Q3 2010 8 5 Chassis Overview 5.1 Dimensions and Weight The PowerVault™ MD1200 and MD1220 enclosures use a rack mount 2U chassis. Dimensions and Weight Table 5. Detailed Dimensions (mm) Model Number Xa Xb Y Za with bezel Za with bezel Zb Zc Max Sys Weight (kg) PV MD1200 481.5 446.3 86...

** Available in Q3 2010 9 5.2 Front View and Features Figure 2. MD1200 Front View and Features

** Available in Q3 2010 10 Figure 3. MD1220 Front View and Features

** Available in Q3 2010 11 Table 6. MD1200 and MD1220 Front Panel Feature Description FRONT PANEL / BEZEL INDICATOR AND FETAURE DESCRIPTION Item Indicator, Button, or Connector Icon Description 1 Enclosure status LED The enclosure status LED lights when the enclosure power is on. Lights blue during ...

** Available in Q3 2010 12 5.3 Back View and Features Figure 5. MD1200 / MD1220 Back View and Features Table 7. MD1200 and MD1220 Back Panel Feature Description BACK PANEL INDICATOR AND FETAURE DESCRIPTION Item Indicator, Button, or Connector Icon Description 1 Power supply/cooling fan module PS 1 6...

** Available in Q3 2010 13 5.4 Hard Drive Indicators Figure 6. Hard Drive Indicators (includes HDD and SSD) Table 8. Drive Indicator Description Drive-Status Indicator Pattern (RAID Only) Condition Blinks green two times per second Identify drive/preparing for removal Off Drive ready for insertion o...

** Available in Q3 2010 14 5.5 Enclosure Management Module Each EMM provides the following data path and enclosure management functions for the enclosure: • Monitoring and controlling enclosure environment elements such as temperature, fan, power supplies, and enclosure LEDs. • Controlling access to...

** Available in Q3 2010 15 EMM INDICATOR AND FETAURE DESCRIPTION Item Indicator, Button, or Connector Icon Description update is in progress. Blinks amber (On 250 ms Off 250 ms [two times]; Off 1000 ms) when the enclosure is unable to communicate with enclosure devices. Blinks amber (On 250 ms *Off ...

** Available in Q3 2010 16 5.6 Power Indicator Codes Figure 8. Power Indicator Codes Table 10. Power Indicator Description POWER INDICATOR AND FETAURE DESCRIPTION Item Indicator, Button, or Connector Icon Description 1 DC Power The LED lights green when the DC output voltage is within the limit. If ...

** Available in Q3 2010 17 • In a split-mode configuration the enclosure is connected to either two host controllers or two ports on a single host controller. The enclosure can be connected to two different host servers in a split mode configuration. Each server sees the enclosure as an independent ...

** Available in Q3 2010 18 Figure 10. EMM Cabling Diagram in Unified Mode (Redundant Path) - RECOMMENDED Figure 11. EMM Cabling Diagram in Split Mode

** Available in Q3 2010 19 Table 11. Split Mode Configuration Enclosure EMM0 EMM1 Dell™ PowerVault™ MD1200 Drives 6 to 11 Drives 0 to 5 Dell™ PowerVault™ MD1220 Drives 12 to 23 Drives 0 to 11 5.8 Connecting the Enclosure Dell™ PowerVault™ MD1200 and MD1200 enclosures standardize on the 6Gb/s (SAS 2....

** Available in Q3 2010 20 Figure 13. Connecting a Mini-SAS Cable 5.9 Field Replaceable Units (FRU) Hot swap HDD and SSD, Power Supply Units (power supply/cooling fan modules), Enclosure Management Modules (EMMs), Control Panel and Backplane are the primary field replaceable units on the Dell™ Power...

** Available in Q3 2010 21 Table 12. Power Supply Specifications AC Characteristics INPUT PARAMETER Requirement Input Voltage Range 90 – 264 VAC Input Frequency 47 – 63 Hz Peak Inrush Current 55 A for 10ms or less, 25 A for 10-150ms Power Factor over full AC input range 0.9 @ output load > 90% Mi...

** Available in Q3 2010 22 6.2 Environmental Specifications Table 13. Environmental Specifications Temperature Operating 10° to 35°C (50° to 95°F) with a maximum temperature gradation of 10°C per hour Note: For altitudes above 2950 feet, the maximum operating temperature is de-rated 1°F/550 ft. Stor...

** Available in Q3 2010 23 8 Additional Information • Non-Dell drive lock-out – In order to ensure the highest quality products and best customer experience, the PERC H800 will not allow for non-Dell™ SAS HDDs or SSDs to be initialized or configured in a Dell™ PowerVault™ MD1200 or MD1220. • Backwar...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 5 1 Product Comparison 1.1 Overview The PERC H700 (internal) and PERC H800 (external) RAID controllers mark the next stage in the evolution of the Dell™ PowerEdge™ RAID controller portfolio with the introduction of 6Gb/s SAS (SAS 2.0). PERC H700 and H800 ...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 6 1.2 PERC H700 Overview The PERC H700 internal host-RAID product offers three different models to support 11 th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers:  The PERC H700 Integrated card with two x4 internal mini-SAS ports supports the PCIe 2.0 x8 host interface...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 9 2 New Features 2.1 Overview The PERC H700 and PERC H800 offer the new CacheCade feature: • Produces cost-effective performance scaling for database-type applications • Offloads Random Reads to Dell-qualified Enterprise SSD configured as CacheCade SSD • ...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 10 Other new features of the 6Gb/s SAS controllers will offer improved signal integrity and additional safeguards to enhance data protection with support for SED (Self-Encrypting Drive) technology. Table 2. 6Gb/s SAS (SAS 2.0) Features DAS-based Server St...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 11 3 Product Support 3.1 Dell PowerEdge Server Support The Dell PERC H700 and PERC H800 are supported with 11 th Generation Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers. Refer to Table 1 for the 11 th Generation PowerEdge servers that support the PERC H700 and PERC H800. For...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 12 Table 5. Operating System Support with PERC H700 and PERC H800 Supported Operating Systems Microsoft ® Windows Server ® 2003 Family Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Family Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux ® Version 4 and Version...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 13 4 Product Overview 4.1 PERC H700 and PERC H800 Overview Table 7. PERC H700 and PERC H800 Features Feature PERC H700 Integrated/Adapter PERC H700 Modular PERC H800 Adapter RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 Ports 2 ...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 16 Table 8. RAID Level Migration Source RAID Level Target RAID Level # of Physical Drives (Beginning) # of Physical Drives (End) Capacity Expansion Possible Description RAID 0 RAID 1 1 2 No Converting non-redundant virtual disk into a mirrored virtual dis...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 18 being a ready hot spare. This allows hot spares to remain in specific enclosure slots. While the controller is reverting the hot spare, the virtual disk remains optimal. The controller automatically reverts a hot spare only if the failed drive is repla...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 19 4.7 Disk Roaming The PERC H700 and H800 cards support moving physical disks from one cable connection or backplane slot to another on the same controller. The controller automatically recognizes the relocated physical disks and logically places them in...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 20 4.10 Virtual Disk Write Cache Policies The write cache policy of a virtual disk determines how the controller handles writes to that virtual disk. Write-Back and Write-Through are the two write cache policies and can be set on virtual disks individuall...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 21 5 RAID Overview 5.1 About RAID RAID is a way of storing data on multiple independent physical disks for the purpose of enhanced performance and/or fault tolerance. The physical disks combine to make up what is called a virtual disk. This virtual disk a...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 22 For example, a four-drive virtual disk may be configured with 16 stripes (four stripes of designated space per drive). Stripes A, B, C and D are located on corresponding hard drives 0, 1, 2, and 3. Stripe E, however, appears on a segment of drive 0 in ...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 23 Figure 5. Example of RAID 1 (Mirroring) Advantages of RAID 1  High performance up to twice the read transaction rate of single disks, and the same write transaction rate as single disks  100 percent redundancy of data means no rebuild of data is nece...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 24 Figure 6. Example of RAID 5 (Single Virtual Disk with 5 drives) Advantages of RAID 5  Most efficient use of drive capacity of all the redundant RAID configurations  High read transaction rate  Medium-to-high write transaction rate Disadvantages of R...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 26 Figure 8. Example of RAID 10 (1 + 0) Advantages of RAID 10  RAID 10 has the same redundancy as RAID level 1  High I/O rates are achieved by striping RAID 1 segments  Allows creation of largest RAID group with up to 192 drives connected to PERC H800 ...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 27 Figure 9. Example of RAID 50 (5 + 0) Advantages of RAID 50  Allows creation of largest RAID groups, up to 256 drives (theoretical; large RAID volumes are allowed for up to 192 drives connected to PERC H800)  High read transaction rate  Higher degree...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 28 Figure 10. Example of RAID 60 (6 + 0) Advantages of RAID 60  Allows creation of largest RAID groups, up to 256 drives (theoretical); large RAID volumes are allowed for up to 192 drives connected to PERC H800  High degree of fault tolerance due to 2 p...

Dell DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 29 Appendix A. Additional Resources Table 9. Resource Contact Information and Descriptions Type Of Information URL Description PERC Resources http://www.dell.com/PERC Support matrix, whitepapers, and important links PERC Hardware Owner’s Manual http://sup...