Dell PERC H730P Integrated RAID 2GB NV Cache

Eight-port 12Gbps PCI Express (PCIe) RAID controller supporting 3Gbps, 6Gbps and12Gbps SAS or SATA hard-disk or solid-state drives

Enterprise data protection

Standard support for the most popular RAID levels, including RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 50, RAID 60 and NV Cache, further strengthen the data-protection capabilities of the PERC H730P. Dell’s NV Cache technology backs up the data to non-volatile memory in a power-loss event, and can store it safely for a nearly unlimited period of time. The H730 also supports non-RAID mode (pass-through) for applications managing storage independently.

Intuitive RAID management

Managing the PERC H730P is easy using the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller. Without having to deploy an agent, IT admins can configure, deploy, update and monitor the PERC H730P, via the GUI or through Dell’s CLI (known as RACADM). Additionally, Dell’s one-to-many OpenManage Essentials 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.

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P 2GB NV Cache

Solution Provided

Eight-port internal SATA+SAS solution supporting 3Gbps, 6Gbps and 12Gbps SAS/SATA hard disk drives

(HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs)

Phycical Demension

167.6mm (6.6in) x 64.4mm (2.5in) (MD2 low profile)

Connectors

Two internal HD Mini-SAS SFF8643

Hotbus type

Up to 255 (SAS, SATA)

Device Support

Up to 32 SAS/ SATA

Hotbus Type

8-lane, PCI Express 3.0 compliant

Data Transfer rate

Up to 12Gb/s per port

SAS Controller

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

Cache memory

2GB 1866MT/s DDR3 SDRAM

Key RAID data protection features

RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6

RAID spans 10, 50, 60

Non-RAID (Pass-through)

Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)

Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)

Auto resume after power loss during array rebuild or econstruction/RLM

Check Consistency for background data integrity

Physical disk power management (Dimmer Switch™)

4K native sector support

Workload profiles

Support for TRIM/UNMAP Commands for SAS/SATA SSDs

T10-DIF Support

NVRAM “Wipe” feature- protects proprietary data once card is decommissioned

End Device Frame Buffering (EDFB)–bandwidth optimizer technology support for compatible expanderbased enclosures

SED drive support

Load balancing

Fast initialization for quick array setup

Configurable stripe size up to 1MB

SSD support

Patrol read for media scanning and repairing

Up to 64 logical drive and 64TB LUN support

DDF compliant Configuration on Disk (COD)

S.M.A.R.T. support

Global and dedicated hot spare with revertible hot-spare support: automatic rebuild, enclosure affinity, emergency SATA

Operating systems

Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP1

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

Virtualization options:

VMware® ESXi 5.1

VMware 6.0