Users Guide

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Chapter 1: Overview...................................................................................................................... 7

PERC S140 specifications..................................................................................................................................................7

Supported operating systems...........................................................................................................................................9

Supported PowerEdge systems..................................................................................................................................... 10

Supported physical disks..................................................................................................................................................10

Management applications for the PERC S140.............................................................................................................11

Chapter 2: Physical Disks.............................................................................................................12

Physical disk features........................................................................................................................................................12

Physical disk roaming.................................................................................................................................................. 12

Physical disk hot-swapping........................................................................................................................................12

Physical disk power management............................................................................................................................ 12

Physical disk failure detection................................................................................................................................... 12

Mirror rebuilding........................................................................................................................................................... 13

Fault tolerance.............................................................................................................................................................. 13

Self-Monitoring And Reporting Technology.......................................................................................................... 13

Native Command Queuing......................................................................................................................................... 13

NVMe PCIe SSD support........................................................................................................................................... 13

Physical disk write cache policy for SATA drives................................................................................................. 14

Linux RAID......................................................................................................................................................................14

Chapter 3: Virtual Disks............................................................................................................... 15

Virtual disk features...........................................................................................................................................................15

TRIM for SATA SSDs.................................................................................................................................................. 15

Disk initialization........................................................................................................................................................... 16

Background Array Scan.............................................................................................................................................. 16

Checkpointing............................................................................................................................................................... 16

Virtual disk cache policies.......................................................................................................................................... 16

Virtual disk migration................................................................................................................................................... 17

Expanding virtual disk capacity................................................................................................................................. 17

Chapter 4: Cabling the drives for S140.........................................................................................19

Disk connectivity for AHCI devices...............................................................................................................................20

Chapter 5: BIOS Configuration Utility.......................................................................................... 21

Entering the BIOS configuration utility.........................................................................................................................21

Exiting the BIOS Configuration Utility..........................................................................................................................22

Initializing the physical disks........................................................................................................................................... 22

Converting to RAID disks...........................................................................................................................................22

Converting to Non-RAID disks................................................................................................................................. 22

Creating the virtual disks.................................................................................................................................................23

Selecting virtual disk sizes while creating a virtual disk ....................................................................................23

Deleting the virtual disks................................................................................................................................................. 23

Swapping two virtual disks............................................................................................................................................. 24

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