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Dell™ OpenManage™ Server Administrator Storage Management User's Guide

Supported Features on the PERC 5/E, PERC 5/i, PERC 6/E, PERC 6/I, and CERC 6/I Controllers

Supported Features on the SAS 5/iR and SAS 6/iR Controllers

Supported Features on the Non-RAID Controllers

Enclosure and Backplane Features

Different controllers support different features. The tasks displayed by the Storage Management menus and other features vary depending on whether the controller supports the feature. This appendix identifies the features that each controller supports. For more information, see your hardware documentation.

Supported Features on the PERC 5/E, PERC 5/i, PERC 6/E, PERC 6/I, and CERC 6/I Controllers

This section identifies the controller-supported features and whether or not an enclosure can be attached to the controller.

"Controller Tasks"
"Battery Tasks"
"Connector Tasks"
"Physical Disk Tasks"
"Virtual Disk Tasks"
"Virtual Disk Specifications"
"Supported RAID Levels"
"Read, Write, Cache and Disk Cache Policy"
"Enclosure Support"

For enclosure-supported tasks, see "Enclosure and Backplane Features."

Controller Tasks

Table A-1. Controller Tasks Supported on the PERC 5/E, PERC 5/i, PERC 6/E, PERC 6/I, and CERC 6/I Controllers

Controller Task Name	PERC 5/E	PERC 5/i	PERC 6/E	PERC 6/I	CERC 6/I
Enable Alarm	Yes	No	Yes	NA	NA
Disable Alarm	Yes	No	Yes	NA	NA
Quiet Alarm	Yes	No	Yes	NA	NA
Test Alarm	Yes	No	Yes	NA	NA
Reset configuration	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Set Rebuild Rate	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Set Background Initialization Rate	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Set Check Consistency Rate	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Set Reconstruct Rate	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rescan Controller	No	No	No	No	No
Create Virtual Disk	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Export Log File	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Clear Foreign Configuration	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Import Foreign Configuration	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Import/Recover Foreign Configuration	Yes with firmware 5.1.x or greater.	Yes with firmware 5.1.x or greater.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Set Patrol Read Mode	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Start Patrol Read	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Stop Patrol Read	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Replace Member	No	No	Yes with firmware 6.1 and later	Yes with firmware 6.1 and later	No
Foreign Configuration	No	No	Yes with firmware 6.1 and later	Yes with firmware 6.1 and later	No
Import Preview of Foreign Configuration	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Hot-plug of Enclosures	No	No	Yes with firmware 6.1 and later	No	No
Change Controller Properties	No	No	Yes with firmware 6.1 and later	Yes with firmware 6.1 and later	No
Intelligent Mirroring	No	No	Yes with firmware 6.1 and later	Yes with firmware 6.1 and later	No
Redundant Path Configuration	No	No	Yes with firmware 6.1 and later	No	No
Disk Cache Policy	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Managing Preserved Cache	No	No	Yes with firmware 6.1 and later	Yes with firmware 6.1 and later	No

Battery Tasks

Table A-2. Battery Tasks Supported on the PERC 5/E, PERC 5/i, PERC 6/E, PERC 6/I, and CERC 6/I Controllers

Battery Task Name	PERC 5/E	PERC 5/i	PERC 6/E	PERC 6/I	CERC 6/I
Recondition Battery	No	No	No	No	No
Start Learn Cycle	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Delay Learn Cycle	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

Connector Tasks

Table A-3. Connector Tasks Supported by the PERC 5/E, PERC 5/i, PERC 6/E, PERC 6/I, and CERC 6/I Controllers

Connector Task Name		PERC 5/E	PERC 5/I	PERC 6/E	PERC 6/I	CERC 6/I
Connector Rescan		No	No	No	No	No

Physical Disk Tasks

Table A-4. Physical Disk Tasks Supported by the PERC 5/E, PERC 5/i, PERC 6/E, PERC 6/I, and CERC 6/I Controllers

Physical Disk Task Name	PERC 5/E	PERC 5/I	PERC 6/E	PERC 6/I	CERC 6/I
Blink/Unblink	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Assign and Unassign Global Hot Spare	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Prepare to Remove	No	No	No	No	No
Offline	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Online	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Initialize	No	No	No	No	No
Rebuild	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cancel Rebuild	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Remove Dead Disk Segments	No	No	No	No	No
Format Disk	No	No	No	No	No
Clear	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cancel Clear	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cancel Replace Member	No	No	Yes with firmware 6.1 and later	Yes with firmware 6.1 and later	No

Virtual Disk Tasks

Table A-5. Virtual Disk Tasks Supported by the PERC 5/E, PERC 5/i, PERC 6/E, PERC 6/I, and CERC 6/I Controllers

Virtual Disk Task Name	PERC 5/E	PERC 5/I	PERC 6/E	PERC 6/I	CERC 6/I
Assign and Unassign Dedicated Hot Spare	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create Virtual Disk	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rename	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Blink/Unblink	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Reconfigure	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Change Policy	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Split Mirror	No	No	No	No	No
Unmirror	No	No	No	No	No
Delete Last Virtual Disk	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Delete (any) Virtual Disk	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Check Consistency	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cancel Check Consistency	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pause Check Consistency	No	No	No	No	No
Resume Check Consistency	No	No	No	No	No
Cancel Background Initialization (BGI)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Format Virtual Disk	No	No	No	No	No
Cancel Format Virtual Disk	No	No	No	No	No
Restore Dead Disk Segments	No	No	No	No	No
Initialize Virtual Disk	No	No	No	No	No
Fast Initialize Virtual Disk	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Slow Initialize Virtual Disk	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cancel Initialize Virtual Disk	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Replace Member	No	No	Yes with firmware 6.1 and later	Yes with firmware 6.1 and later	No

Virtual Disk Specifications

Table A-6. Virtual Disk Specifications for the PERC 5/E, PERC 5/i, PERC 6/E, PERC 6/I, and CERC 6/I Controllers

Virtual Disk Specification	PERC 5/E	PERC 5/I	PERC 6/E	PERC 6/I	CERC 6/I
Maximum Number of Virtual Disks per Controller	64	64	64	64	64
Minimum Virtual Disk Size	100MB	100MB	100MB	100MB	100MB
Maximum Virtual Disk Size	None	None	None	None	None
Maximum Number of Spans per Virtual Disk	8	8	8	8	8
Maximum Number of Physical Disks per Span	32	32	32	32	32
Minimum Stripe Size	8k	8k	8k	8k	8k
Maximum Stripe Size	128k	128k	1MB	1MB	1MB
Maximum Number of Virtual Disks per Physical Disk	16	16	16	16	16
Maximum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 0	32	32	32	32	32
Maximum Physical Disks in a RAID 1	2	2	2	2	2
Maximum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 5	32	32	32	32	32
Maximum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 10	16	16	256 For SAS controllers with firmware version 6.1	16	16
Maximum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 50	256	256	256	256	256
Minimum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 0	1	1	1	1	1
Minimum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 1	2	2	2	2	2
Minimum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 5	3	3	3	3	3
Minimum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 10	4	4	4	4	4
Minimum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 50	6	6	6	6	6
Maximum number of physical disks in a RAID 6	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	32	32	32
Maximum number of physical disks in a RAID 60	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	256	256	256
Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 6	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	4	4	4
Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 60	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	8	8	8

Supported RAID Levels

Table A-7. RAID Levels Supported by the PERC 5/E, PERC 5/i, PERC 6/E, PERC 6/I, and CERC 6/I Controllers

RAID Level	PERC 5/E	PERC 5/I	PERC 6/E	PERC 6/I	CERC 6/I
RAID 0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
RAID 1	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
RAID 5	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
RAID 10	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
RAID 50	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
RAID 6	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
RAID 60	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes

Read, Write, Cache and Disk Cache Policy

Table A-8. Read, Write, and Cache Policy Supported by the PERC 5/E, PERC 5/i, PERC 6/E, PERC 6/I, and CERC 6/I Controllers

Read, Write, and Cache Policy	PERC 5/E	PERC 5/I	PERC 6/E	PERC 6/I	CERC 6/I
Cache settings	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Read Policy	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Read Ahead (Enabled)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Adaptive Read Ahead	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
No Read Ahead (Disabled)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Write Policy	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Write Back (Enabled)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Write Through (Disabled)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Force Write Back (Enabled Always)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Write Cache Enabled Protected	No	No	No	No	No
Cache Policy	No	No	No	No	No
Disk Cache Policy	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Cache I/O	No	No	No	No	No
Direct I/O	No	No	No	No	No

Enclosure Support

Table A-9. Enclosure Support on the PERC 5/E, PERC 5/i, PERC 6/E, PERC 6/I, and CERC 6/I Controllers

Enclosure Support		PERC 5/E	PERC 5/I	PERC 6/E	PERC 6/I	CERC 6/I
Can an enclosure be attached to this controller?		Yes	No	Yes	No	No

Supported Features on the SAS 5/iR and SAS 6/iR Controllers

This section identifies the controller-supported features and whether or not an enclosure can be attached to the controller.

"Controller Tasks"
"Battery Tasks"
"Connector Tasks"
"Physical Disk Tasks"
"Virtual Disk Tasks"
"Virtual Disk Specifications"
"Supported RAID Levels"
"Read, Write, Cache and Disk Cache Policy"
"Enclosure Support"

For enclosure-supported tasks, see "Enclosure and Backplane Features."

Controller Tasks

Table A-10. Controller Tasks Supported on the SAS 5/iR and SAS 6/iR Controllers

Controller Task Name	SAS 5/iR	SAS 6/iR
Enable Alarm	No	No
Disable Alarm	No	No
Quiet Alarm	No	No
Test Alarm	No	No
Reset configuration	No	Yes
Set Rebuild Rate	No	No
Set Background Initialization Rate	No	No
Set Check Consistency Rate	No	No
Set Reconstruct Rate	No	No
Rescan Controller	No	No
Create Virtual Disk	No	No
Export Log File	No	No
Clear Foreign Configuration	Yes	Yes
Import Foreign Configuration	No	No
Import/Recover Foreign Configuration	No	No
Set Patrol Read Mode	No	No
Start Patrol Read	No	No
Stop Patrol Read	No	No

Battery Tasks

Table A-11. Battery Tasks Supported on the SAS 5/iR and SAS 6/iR Controller

Battery Task Name	SAS 5/iR	SAS 6/iR
Recondition Battery	No	No
Start Learn Cycle	No	No
Delay Learn Cycle	No	No

Connector Tasks

Table A-12. Connector Tasks Supported on the SAS 5/iR and SAS 6/iR Controllers

Connector Task Name

SAS 5/IR

SAS 6/iR

Connector Rescan

Physical Disk Tasks

Table A-13. Physical Disk Tasks Supported on the SAS 5/iR and SAS 6/iR Controllers

Physical Disk Task Name	SAS 5/IR	SAS 6/iR
Blink/Unblink	Yes Task only available when an enclosure or backplane and LEDs on the physical disks are present.	Yes
Assign and Unassign Global Hot Spare	No	Supports up to two global hot spares
Prepare to Remove	No	No
Offline	No	No
Online	No	No
Initialize	No	No
Rebuild	No	Not applicable. Rebuild automatically initiated by the controller.
Cancel Rebuild	No	No
Remove Dead Disk Segments	No	No
Format Disk	No	No
Clear	No	No
Cancel Clear	No	No

Virtual Disk Tasks

Table A-14. Virtual Disk Tasks Supported by the SAS 5/iR and SAS 6/iR Controllers

Virtual Disk Task Name	SAS 5/IR	SAS 6/iR
Assign and Unassign Dedicated Hot Spare	No	No
Create Virtual Disk	No	Yes
Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard	No	Yes
Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard	No	No
Rename	No	No
Blink/Unblink	Yes	Yes
Reconfigure	No	No
Change Policy	No	No
Split Mirror	No	No
Unmirror	No	No
Delete Last Virtual Disk	No	Yes
Delete (any) Virtual Disk	No	Yes
Check Consistency	No	No
Cancel Check Consistency	No	No
Pause Check Consistency	No	No
Resume Check Consistency	No	No
Cancel Background Initialization (BGI)	No	No
Format Virtual Disk	No	No
Cancel Format Virtual Disk	No	No
Restore Dead Disk Segments	No	No
Initialize Virtual Disk	No	No
Fast Initialize Virtual Disk	No	No
Slow Initialize Virtual Disk	No	No
Cancel Initialize Virtual Disk	No	No

Virtual Disk Specifications

Table A-15. Virtual Disk Specifications for the SAS 5/iR and SAS 6/iR Controllers

Virtual Disk Specification	SAS 5/IR	SAS 6/iR
Maximum Number of Virtual Disks per Controller	2	2
Minimum Virtual Disk Size	Max	Max
Maximum Virtual Disk Size	2TB	None
Maximum Number of Spans per Virtual Disk	1	1
Maximum Number of Physical Disks per Span	4	10
Minimum Stripe Size	64k	64k
Maximum Stripe Size	64k	64k
Maximum Number of Virtual Disks per Physical Disk	1	1
Maximum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 0	4	10
Maximum Physical Disks in a RAID 1	2	2
Maximum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 5	Not Applicable	Not Applicable
Maximum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 10	Not Applicable	Not Applicable
Maximum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 50	Not Applicable	Not Applicable
Minimum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 0	2	2
Minimum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 1	2	2
Minimum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 5	Not Applicable	Not Applicable
Minimum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 10	Not Applicable	Not Applicable
Minimum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 50	Not Applicable	Not Applicable
Maximum number of physical disks in a RAID 6	Not Applicable	Not Applicable
Maximum number of physical disks in a RAID 60	Not Applicable	Not Applicable
Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 6	Not Applicable	Not Applicable
Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 60	Not Applicable	Not Applicable

Supported RAID Levels

Table A-16. RAID Levels Supported by the SAS 5/iR and SAS 6/iR Controllers

RAID Level	SAS 5/IR	SAS 6/iR
RAID 0	Yes	Yes
RAID 1	Yes	Yes
RAID 5	No	No
RAID 10	No	No
RAID 50	No	No
RAID 6	No	No
RAID 60	No	No

Read, Write, Cache and Disk Cache Policy

Table A-17. Read, Write, and Cache Policy Supported by the SAS 5/iR and SAS 6/iR Controllers

Read, Write, and Cache Policy	SAS 5/IR	SAS 6/iR
Cache settings	No	No
Read Policy	Yes	Yes
Read Ahead (Enabled)	No	No
Adaptive Read Ahead	No	No
No Read Ahead (Disabled)	Yes	Yes
Write Policy	Yes	Yes
Write Back (Enabled)	No	No
Write Through (Disabled)	Yes	Yes
Force Write Back (Enabled Always)	No	No
Write Cache Enabled Protected	No	No
Cache Policy	No	No
Disk Cache Policy	No	No
Cache I/O	No	No
Direct I/O	No	No

Enclosure Support

Table A-18. Enclosure Support on the SAS 5/iR and SAS 6/iR Controllers

Enclosure Support		SAS 5/IR	SAS 6/iR
Can an enclosure be attached to this controller?		No	No

Supported Features on the Non-RAID Controllers

This section identifies the controller-supported features and whether or not an enclosure can be attached to the controller.

For enclosure-supported tasks, see "Enclosure and Backplane Features."

Controller Tasks

Table A-19. Controller Tasks Supported on the Non-RAID SAS Controllers

Controller Task Name		Non-RAID SAS
Enable Alarm		No
Disable Alarm		No
Quiet Alarm		No
Test Alarm		No
Reset configuration		No
Set Rebuild Rate		No
Set Background Initialization Rate		No
Set Check Consistency Rate		No
Set Reconstruct Rate		No
Rescan Controller		No
Create Virtual Disk		No
Export Log File		No
Clear Foreign Configuration		No
Import Foreign Configuration		No
Import/Recover Foreign Configuration		No
Set Patrol Read Mode		No
Start Patrol Read		No
Stop Patrol Read		No

Battery Tasks

Table A-20. Battery Tasks Supported on the Non-RAID SAS Controllers

Battery Task Name		Non-RAID SAS
Recondition Battery		No
Start Learn Cycle		No
Delay Learn Cycle		No

Connector Tasks

Table A-21. Connector Tasks Supported on the Non-RAID SAS Controllers

Connector Task Name		Non-RAID SAS
Connector Rescan		No

Physical Disk Tasks

Table A-22. Physical Disk Tasks Supported on the Non-RAID SAS Controllers

Physical Disk Task Name		Non-RAID SAS
Blink/Unblink		Yes
Assign and Unassign Global Hot Spare		No
Prepare to Remove		No
Offline		No
Online		No
Initialize		No
Rebuild		No
Cancel Rebuild		No
Remove Dead Disk Segments		No
Format Disk		No
Clear		No
Cancel Clear		No

Virtual Disk Tasks

Table A-23. Virtual Disk Tasks Supported by the Non-RAID SAS Controllers

Virtual Disk Task Name		Non-RAID SAS
Assign and Unassign Dedicated Hot Spare		No
Create Virtual Disk		No
Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard		No
Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard		No
Rename		No
Blink/Unblink		No
Reconfigure		No
Change Policy		No
Split Mirror		No
Unmirror		No
Delete Last Virtual Disk		No
Delete (any) Virtual Disk		No
Check Consistency		No
Cancel Check Consistency		No
Pause Check Consistency		No
Resume Check Consistency		No
Cancel Background Initialization (BGI)		No
Format Virtual Disk		No
Cancel Format Virtual Disk		No
Restore Dead Disk Segments		No
Initialize Virtual Disk		No
Fast Initialize Virtual Disk		No
Slow Initialize Virtual Disk		No
Cancel Initialize Virtual Disk		No

Enclosure Support

Table A-24. Enclosure Support on the Non-RAID SAS Controllers

Enclosure Support		Non-RAID SAS
Can an enclosure be attached to this controller?		No

Enclosure and Backplane Features

This section identifies the features supported by the enclosure or backplane.

For information on controller-supported features, see:

Enclosure and Backplane Tasks

Table A-25. Enclosure and Backplane Tasks

Enclosure and Backplane Tasks	SAS Backplane	PowerVault MD1000/MD1120 Storage Enclosure
Enable Alarm	No	Yes
Disable Alarm	No	Yes
Set Temperature Probe Values	No	Yes
Set Asset Data (includes asset tag and asset name)	No	Yes
Blink Enclosure	No	Yes

Enclosure and Backplane Support for Smart Thermal Shutdown

Table A-26. Enclosure Support for Smart Thermal Shutdown

Smart Thermal Shutdown		SAS Backplane	PowerVault MD1000/MD1120 Storage Enclosure
Smart Thermal Shutdown		No	No

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