Specification Description
Maximum number of spans per disk
group
8
Maximum number of virtual disks per
disk group
16
Maximum number of virtual disks 64
Dedicated and global hot spares Yes
Hot swap devices supported Yes
Hardware XOR engine Yes
Virtual disk initialization; background,
full, and fast
Yes
Consistency check Yes
Disk roaming Yes
FastPath Yes
Virtual disk migration between two
Shared PERC 8 cards
Yes
NOTE: The target Shared PERC 8 card firmware level must
be either higher or equal to the source Shared PERC 8 card
firmware level.
Virtual disk migration from PERC
H310, H710, or H710P cards to a
Shared PERC 8 card
No
SMART detection Yes
Patrol Read Yes
Automatic replace member Yes
SAS (HDD/SSD) hard drive Yes
Physical disk power management IDLE-C for compliant HDDs only. No support for balanced,
maximum, and customized power savings.
SATA (HDD/SSD) hard drive No
Manual replace member No
Online capacity expansion No
Cachecade No
Local Key Management (LKM) No
PCIe hot-plug of controller No
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