Users Guide

Physical disk failure detection.................................................................................................................................. 29
Using persistent hot spare slots.............................................................................................................................. 29
Physical disk hot swapping....................................................................................................................................... 30
Using replace member and revertible hot spares................................................................................................ 30
Controller cache.......................................................................................................................................................... 30
Controller cache preservation...................................................................................................................................31
Battery Transparent Learn Cycle............................................................................................................................. 31
Chapter 4: Deploying the PERC card........................................................................................... 32
Removing the PERC H345 adapter.............................................................................................................................. 32
Installing the PERC H345 adapter................................................................................................................................ 33
Removing the PERC H345 front card..........................................................................................................................34
Installing the PERC H345 front card............................................................................................................................35
Removing the PERC H740P adapter............................................................................................................................36
Installing the PERC H740P adapter.............................................................................................................................. 37
Removing the PERC H740P mini monolithic.............................................................................................................. 37
Installing the PERC H740P mini monolithic................................................................................................................ 38
Removing the PERC H745 adapter.............................................................................................................................. 39
Installing the PERC H745 adapter.................................................................................................................................40
Removing the PERC H745 front card...........................................................................................................................41
Installing the PERC H745 front card............................................................................................................................ 42
Removing the PERC H745P MX adapter card...........................................................................................................43
Installing the PERC H745P MX adapter card.............................................................................................................44
Removing the PERC H840 card.................................................................................................................................... 45
Installing the PERC H840 card...................................................................................................................................... 46
Part replacement of a PERC card in eHBA mode..................................................................................................... 46
Part replacement of a PERC card in RAID mode with another in eHBA mode.................................................. 46
Chapter 5: Driver installation...................................................................................................... 48
Creating the device driver media.................................................................................................................................. 48
Downloading drivers from the Dell support website........................................................................................... 48
Downloading drivers from the Dell systems service and diagnostic tools media ........................................48
Windows driver installation............................................................................................................................................. 49
Installing the driver during a Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer installation..................................................49
Installing the driver after Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer installation ...................................................... 49
Updating PERC 10 driver for existing Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer...................................................... 50
Linux driver installation.................................................................................................................................................... 50
Installing or updating the RPM driver package with KMOD support.............................................................. 51
Installing or updating the RPM driver package with KMP support..................................................................51
Loading the driver during operating system installation.....................................................................................51
Chapter 6: Firmware................................................................................................................... 53
Installing the firmware using DUP................................................................................................................................. 53
Chapter 7: HII configuration utility.............................................................................................. 54
Entering the HII configuration utility............................................................................................................................ 54
Exiting the HII configuration utility................................................................................................................................54
Navigating to Dell PERC 10 configuration utility....................................................................................................... 54
HII Configuration utility dashboard view options.......................................................................................................55
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