Users Guide

Overview

The PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) 10 series consist of the H345, H740P, H745, H745P MX, and H840 cards. The PERC 10

family of storage controller cards has the following characteristics:

● Complies with serial-attached SCSI (SAS) 3.0 providing up to 12 Gb/sec throughput.

● Supports Dell-qualified serial-attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives, SATA hard drives, and solid-state drives (SSDs).

● Offers RAID control capabilities including support for RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60.

● Provides reliability, high performance, and fault-tolerant disk subsystem management.

NOTE: Mixing SAS and SATA drives within a virtual disk is not supported. Also, mixing hard drives and SSDs within a virtual

disk is not supported.

NOTE: Mixing disks of different speed (7,200 rpm, 10,000 rpm, or 15,000 rpm) and bandwidth (3 Gbps, 6 Gbps or 12 Gbps)

while maintaining the same drive type (SAS or SATA) and technology (HDD or SSD) is supported.

NOTE: RAID levels 5, 6, 50 and 60 are not supported on PERC H345.

NOTE: For the safety, regulatory, and ergonomic information associated with these devices, and for more information

about the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) or Lifecycle Controller (LC) remote management, see your

platform documentation.

Topics:

• Supported operating systems

• PERC card specifications

• Management applications for PERC cards

Supported operating systems

See Dell EMC Enterprise operating systems support for a list of supported operating systems by a specific server for the PERC

10 card.

NOTE:

The PERC 10 driver for VMware ESXi is bundled with the VMware ISO image available from Dell. For more

information, see www.dell.com/virtualizationsolutions.

NOTE: For the latest list of supported operating systems and driver installation instructions, see the operating system

documentation at www.dell.com/operatingsystemmanuals. For specific operating system service pack requirements, see

the Drivers and Downloads section at www.dell.com/manuals.

8 Overview