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PERC H200.book Page 1 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM
Dell™ PowerEdge™ RAID
Controller (PERC) H200 and
6Gbps SAS HBA
User’s Guide
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PERC H200.book Page 2 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM Notes, Cautions, and Warnings NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if instructions are not followed. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. ________________________________________ Information in this publication is subject to change without notice. © 2009
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PERC H200.book Page 3 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM Contents 1 CAUTION: Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . 9 SAFETY: General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 SAFETY: When Working Inside Your System . . . . . . 10 Protecting Against Electrostatic Discharge . . . . . . 10 SAFETY: Battery Disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Operating System Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 About RAID. . . . . . . . .
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PERC H200.book Page 4 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM 4 Hardware Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Installing the PERC H200 and 6Gbps SAS HBA Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Installing the PERC H200 Modular Card . . . . . . . . . 28 5 Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Installing the Windows Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Creating the Driver Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Pre-Installation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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PERC H200.book Page 5 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM 6 PERC H200 and 6Gbps SAS HBA BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 POST Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 BIOS Fault Code Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Booting With Multiple Controllers . . . . . . . . . 44 Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Starting the Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . 44 Functions Performed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 RAID Conf
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PERC H200.book Page 6 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM 7 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 BIOS Boot Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Background Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 General Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Physical Disk Related Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Configuration Utility Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . 63 BIOS Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 A Updating the
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PERC H200.book Page 7 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM C Regulatory Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 D Corporate Contact Details (Taiwan Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Contents 7
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PERC H200.book Page 8 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM 8 Contents
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PERC H200.book Page 9 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM CAUTION: Safety Instructions Use the following safety guidelines to help ensure your own personal safety and to help protect your system and working environment from potential damage. WARNING: There is a danger of a new battery exploding if it is incorrectly installed. Replace the battery only with the same or equivalent type recommended by the manufacturer. See "SAFETY: Battery Disposal" on page 11. NOTE: For complete information on
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PERC H200.book Page 10 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM SAFETY: When Working Inside Your System Before you remove the system covers, perform the following steps in the sequence indicated. CAUTION: Except as expressly otherwise instructed in Dell documentation, only trained service technicians are authorized to remove the system cover and access any of the components inside the system. CAUTION: To help avoid possible damage to the system board, wait 5 seconds after turning off the system b
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PERC H200.book Page 11 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM You can also take the following steps to prevent damage from electrostatic discharge: � When unpacking a static-sensitive component from its shipping carton, do not remove the component from the antistatic packing material until you are ready to install the component. Just before unwrapping the antistatic package, be sure to discharge static electricity from your body. � When transporting a sensitive component, first place it in an anti
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PERC H200.book Page 12 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM 12 CAUTION: Safety Instructions
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PERC H200.book Page 13 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ RAID Controller (PERC) H200 and the 6Gbps SAS HBA cards are part of the third generation of the Dell Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID controllers. The PERC H200 and 6Gbps SAS HBA cards comply with the T10 SAS 2.0 specification, providing upto 6 Gb/sec throughput, and improved hardware performance. The PERC H200 card has integrated RAID capabilities and enables support for Dell-qualified hard drives and sol
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PERC H200.book Page 14 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM Figure 2-1. 6Gbps SAS HBA Hardware Architecture 1 2 1 2 x4 external SAS connectors 2 PCI-E connector Operating System Support The PERC H200 and 6Gbps SAS HBA cards support the following operating systems: ® ® � Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family � Microsoft Windows Server 2008 family, including Hyper-V Virtualization � Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 ® ® �Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4.7, version 4.8, and version 5.3 ® �SUSE Linux
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PERC H200.book Page 15 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM About RAID RAID is a group of multiple independent physical disks that provide high performance or better data availability by increasing the number of drives used for saving and accessing data. A RAID disk subsystem improves I/O performance and data availability. The physical disk group appears to the host system as a single storage unit. Data throughput improves because multiple disks can be accessed simultaneously. RAID systems als
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PERC H200.book Page 16 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM Figure 2-2. Example of RAID 0 stripe element 1 stripe element 2 stripe element 3 stripe element 4 stripe element 5 stripe element 6 stripe element 7 stripe element 8 stripe element 9 stripe element 10 stripe element 11 stripe element 12 RAID 1 With RAID 1, data written to one disk is simultaneously written to another disk. If one disk fails, the contents of the other disk can be used to run the system and rebuild the failed physical disk
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PERC H200.book Page 17 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM RAID 10 RAID 10 requires two or more mirrored sets working together. Multiple RAID 1 sets are combined to form a single array. Data is striped across all mirrored drives. Since each drive is mirrored in RAID 10, no delay is encountered because no parity calculation is done. This RAID strategy can tolerate the loss of multiple drives as long as two drives of the same mirrored pair do not fail. RAID 10 volumes provide high data throughp
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PERC H200.book Page 18 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM 18 Overview
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PERC H200.book Page 19 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM PERC H200 and 6Gbps SAS HBA Features This section provides the specifications of the Dell™ PowerEdge™ RAID Controller (PERC) H200 and 6Gbps SAS HBA cards. Table 3-1 compares the specifications of the PERC H200 Adapter and PERC H200 Integrated and PERC H200 Modular cards. Table 3-1. Specifications of PERC H200 Specification PERC H200 Adapter PERC H200 Integrated PERC H200 Modular SAS technology Yes Yes Yes Support for x4 Yes Yes Yes or
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PERC H200.book Page 20 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:15 PM Table 3-1. Specifications of PERC H200 (continued) Specification PERC H200 Adapter PERC H200 Integrated PERC H200 Modular ® ® Supported Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family, Microsoft ® operating systems Windows Server 2008 family, Windows Server 2008 R2, Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux version 4 Update 7 and later, version 5 Update 3 ® and later, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 10 Service Pack 2 and later (64-bit only), and version 11
