PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P

Dell’s high-performance, next-generation PowerEdge™ RAID Controller H730 brings a

doubling of IOPs performance along with 12Gbps SAS support and enhanced options for
managing and configuring storage.

As storage demands expand and processing loads grow, it

becomes increasingly more difficult for administrators to • iDRAC will create jobs and automatically execute
achieve maximum performance from their applications. them for each storage configuration operation.
The newest line of PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC)
cards, built on the LSI SAS3108 dual-core PowerPC • Offers you the option to reboot the host OS
RAID-on-Chip (ROC), offer unmatched I/O performance automatically to complete jobs or wait and do it
for database applications and streaming digital media at a later, more convenient time.
environments.
• Supports real-time RAID monitoring and
The PERC H730P, with eight internal ports, delivers two inventory of hardware RAID connected to the
PowerPC processor cores and a 72-bit DDR3 interface server.
that drives 2GB non-volatile cache memory. You can
deploy the PERC H730P in hard-drive-based server iDRAC7 incorporates Dell OpenManage™ Storage
environments for significant performance gains. If you are Services, which provides essential tools to efficiently
implementing hybrid server platforms based on solid-state manage PERC products, whether deployed in an
storage, these next-generation PERCs exploit the enterprise or small business. Dell offers a collection
potential of solid-state drives (SSDs) for unsurpassed of applications and tools, including a pre-boot setup
performance and enterprise-class reliability. utility and a full spectrum of online RAID management
utilities. This suite of applications allow admins to
adjust SAS or SATA topology views from the system
Enterprise data protection host, controller and disk enclosure down to the
Standard support for the most popular RAID levels
logical and physical drive level. Extending to
and accessories, including RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 50,
enterprise deployments, these tools can scale to
RAID 60 and NVCache, further strengthen the data-
easily configure, monitor and manage RAID and
protection capabilities of the PERC H730P. Dell’s
JBOD volumes locally or over the LAN network.
NVCache technology backs up data to non-volatile
memory in a power-loss event and can store it safely
for a nearly unlimited period of time.
PowerEdge RAID Controller
Intuitive RAID management
Managing the PERC H730P is easy with the integrated
H730P
Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7) with
Lifecycle Controller. Without having to deploy an
• 12Gbps SAS Support
agent, IT admins can configure, deploy, update, and
monitor the PERC H730P, via the GUI or through • Doubling of IOPs
Dell’s CLI known as RACADM. With the release of performance capabilities
iDRAC7 firmware 1.50.50 and beyond, you have the
ability to perform storage operations through the • Doubling of NV Cache
Racadm interface. This includes RAID controllers as
well as physical disks in the PowerEdge system and
from 1GB to 2GB
external enclosures.

January 2014
 Feature PERC H730P technical specification
Solution provided 8-port internal SATA+SAS solution supporting 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SATA. 3Gb/s, 6Gb/s
and 12Gb/s SAS hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs)

Physical dimensions 167.6 mm (6.6 in) x 64.4 mm (2.5 in)

Connectors 2 internal HD mini-SAS SFF8643

Device support Up to 255 (SAS, SATA)

Host bus type 8-lane, PCI Express 3.0 compliant

Data transfer rates Up to 12Gb/s per port

SAS controller LSI SAS3108 1.2Ghz PowerPC 476 Dual Core 12Gb/s ROC

Cache memory 2GB 1866MT/s DDR3 SDRAM

• RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6 • Load balancing

Key RAID & • RAID spans 10, 50, 60 • Fast initialization for quick array
data protection features • Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) setup
• Online RAID Level Migration (RLM) • Configurable stripe size up to 1MB
• Auto resume after power loss during array • SSD support
rebuild or reconstruction/RLM • Patrol read for media scanning and
• Check Consistency for background data repairing
integrity • Up to 64 logical drive and 64TB LUN
• Physical disk power management (Dimmer- support
Switch™) • DDF compliant Configuration on
• 4K native sector support Disk (COD)
• Workload profiles • S.M.A.R.T. support
• Support for TRIM/UNMAP Commands for SAS/ • Global and dedicated hot spare
SATA SSDs with revertible hot-spare support:
• T10-DIF Support automatic rebuild, enclosure affinity,
• NVRAM “Wipe” feature — protects proprietary emergency SATA
data when card is decommissioned • UEFI (HII)
• End Device Frame Buffering (EDFB) — band-
width optimizer technology support for com-
patible expander-based enclosures
• SED drive support

RAID management CTRL-R

Dell OpenManage Storage Services
Additional management:
• CEM
• UEFI HII

Operating temperature Maximum ambient temperature: 55°C

Optional SSD optimization Dell FastPath™ firmware feature: delivers high IOPs performance on SSD array

Operating systems Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP1 Virtualization options:

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 VMware® ESX/ESXi 5.1
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.8 VMware® 6.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

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