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PowerEdge M710HD Technical Guide
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12.5
PERC H200 HBA
The M710HD internal PERC H200 HBA incorporates two four-channel SAS IOCs for connection to up to
two SAS or SATA SSD hard disk drives. PERC H200 is based on LSI SAS2008e SAS IOC that is SAS 2.0
compliant and has 6Gbps throughput.
The M710HD embedded PERC H200 solution supports the following features:
PCIe Gen2
SAS Hard Drive up to 6Gb/s and Solid State Drive (SSD)
RAID 0 and 1
Array Management via BIOS Configuration Utility (CTRL+C) and OMSS
Selection of Preferred Boot Device
Background Initialization (BGI)
Consistency Check (CC)
Check-pointing for Rebuild, BGI and CC
Reporting of unsupported drives (no blocking)
Reporting of Negotiated Link Speed
HDD BP SEP/Status LED support
Enhanced UEFI/Maser Support
Table 10.
Supported Storage Controllers
Product
Usage
M710HD
Slot
PCI
Bracket
I/O
Con
RAID
Battery
backup
SAS
HBA
SAS/
SATA
PERC
H200
Integrated
Internal
Backplane
Storage
Yes—Max 1
Embedded No
x4
integrated
mini SAS
0, 1
No
12.5.1
Selecting Preferred Boot Device in H200 Controller
The M710HD PERC H200 controller offers the ability to specify any un-configured Physical Disk or
Virtual Disk as a Boot Device regardless of its slot location in the system.
In the SAS Topology screen accessed using CTRL+C, a user can scroll down to either select the
desired Physical Disk or Virtual Disk and assign that device as their Preferred Boot Device by pressing
ALT+B. The Preferred Boot Device will then be marked as ―Boot‖ under Device Information. ALT+B
can be used to deselect a previously selected Preferred Boot Device as well.
If no Boot Device is selected, the controller will boot to the first device discovered or its associated
RAID volume.
12.5.2
PERC H200 SAS 6Gb/s
The M710HD H200 6Gbps SAS controller complies with SAS 2.0 and provides up to 6 Gb/s throughput.
For maximum supported throughput, ensure that the correct hardware is used. This includes hard
drives, backplanes, enclosures.
12.5.3
PERC H200 Solid State Drive Support
In addition to SAS hard disk drive (HDD) support, the M710HD PERC H200 also offers support for solid
state drives (SSDs). The M710HD H200 controller does not support mixing SSDs and SAS HDDs in a RAID
volume.