Dell PowerEdge H730P, User Manual

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Features
PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H730P card supports the following features:
• T10 Protection Information (PI)
• secure firmware update
• improved RAID 10 configuration
• 4KB block size disk drives
• physical disk power management
• types of virtual disk initialization
• consistency check
• disk roaming
• fast path
• virtual disk migration
• reconfiguration of virtual disks
• fault tolerance
• patrol read
• non-RAID disks support
T10 Protection Information
T10 Protection Information (PI) is an end-to-end data integrity feature of the PERC H730P card. When PI
is enabled, the PERC H730P provides additional protection against silent data corruption, and ensures
that incomplete and incorrect data do not overwrite good data.
Only Dell certified PI disks are supported.
NOTE: PI is not supported on the SAS disks with 512–byte native and 512–byte emulated block size
and SATA disks.
Enabling T10 PI
To enable T10 PI:
1. During host system boot, press <Ctrl> <R> to access the BIOs Configuration Utility .
The Virtual Disk Management screen is displayed in the BIOS Configuration Utility window.
If there is more than one controller, the main menu screen is displayed. Select a controller, and press
<Enter>. The
Virtual Disk Management screen is displayed for the selected controller.
2. Use the arrow keys to highlight PERC H730P Adapter or Disk Group # .
3. Press <F2>.
The list of available actions is displayed.
4. Click Enable Data Protection .
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