Dell PERC H710 Integrated RAID Controller, 512MB NV Cache (Mini-Type)

An eight-port 6Gb/s PCI Express RAID controller, the Dell PowerEdge RAID

Controller (PERC) H710P supports up to thirty-two 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SATA or SAS hard-disk drives or solid-state drives.

Enterprise data protection

Standard support for the most popular RAID levels and accessories, including RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 50, RAID 60 and NVCache, further strengthen the data-protection capabilities of the PERC H710. Dell’s NVCache technology backs up the data to non-volatile storage in a power-loss event, and can store it safely for a nearly unlimited period of time.

Intuitive RAID management utility

Dell OpenManage™ Storage Services (OMSS) provides the essential tools to efficiently manage PERC products, whether deployed in an enterprise or small business. Dell offers a collection of applications and tools, including a pre-boot setup utility and a full spectrum of online RAID management utilities. This suite of applications allow administrators to adjust SAS or SATA topology views from the system host, controller and disk enclosure down to the logical and physical drive level. Extending to enterprise deployments, these tools can scale to easily configure, monitor and manage RAID and JBOD volumes locally or over the LAN network

Model

PERC H710 technical specification

Solution Provided

Eight-port internal SATA+SAS solution supporting up to 32 SAS or SATA hard-disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs)

Phycical Demension

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

Connectors

2 internal mini-SAS SFF8088

Device Support

Up to 32 SAS/ SATA

Hotbus Type

8-lane, PCI Express 2.0 compliant

Data Transfer rate

Up to 6Gb/s per port

SAS Controller

LSISAS 2008 dual-core PowerPC ROC

Cache Size

512MB

Key RAID data protection

features

RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6

RAID spans 10, 50, 60

Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)

Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)

Auto resume after power loss during array rebuild or

reconstruction/RLM

Consistency check for background data integrity

SED drive support

Load balancing

Physical disk power management (Dimmer Switch™)

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

hot spare for SAS arrays

Enclosure management: SES (inband), SGPIO (sideband)

Operating systems

Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP2

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.7

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6.1

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2

Virtualization options:

VMware® ESX/ESXi 4.1

VMware® 5.0 U1