PERC H840 DATA SHEET

POWEREDGE RAID
CONTROLLER H840
The Dell EMC PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H840 is an
eight-port (2-x4 connectors) external 12Gb/s SAS solution for
performance-hungry external storage environments supporting
up to 192 SAS hard-disk drives or solid-state drives.

As storage demands expand and processing loads grow, it becomes increasingly more difficult for administrators to
achieve maximum performance and scale from their applications. The newest line of Dell EMC PERC cards, built on the
LSI 3508 dual-core ARM A15 RAID-On-Chip (ROC), offer unmatched I/O performance for database applications and
streaming digital media environments.

The PERC H840, with eight external ports (2- x4 connectors), delivers two high performance ARM A15 processor cores
ad integrates a 72-bit, DDR4-2133 DRAM interface that drives 8GB non-volatile cache memory.1 This controller is ideal for
configuring external storage enclosures that drives high-performance SAS hard drives and application-accelerating solid
state drives. The PERC H840 exploits the potential of 12Gb/s SAS SSDs for unsurpassed performance and enterprise-
class reliability.

Enterprise data protection

Standard support for the most popular RAID levels, including RAID 5 and RAID 6, further strengthen the data protection
capabilities of the PERC H840. Dell EMC’s Flash Backed Cache or NV Cache technology allows protection of the cache
for a nearly unlimited period of time.

Sophisticated DAS topologies

The PERC H840 can easily be connected and deployed within new 12Gb/s SAS environments to further simplify direct
attached storage (DAS) scale management and reduce single point of failures common in expanded DAS environments.
The PERC H840 is unique in that it offers higher levels of connectivity, simplified management and features and benefits
typically available only in higher-end storage network configurations.

Intuitive RAID management

Managing the PERC H840 is easy using the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9 (iDRAC9) with Lifecycle Control-
ler. Without having to deploy an agent, IT admins can configure, deploy, update, and monitor the PERC H840, via the GUI
or through Dell EMC’s CLI known as RACADM. Additionally, Dell EMC’s one-to-many OpenManage console allows the
user to perform storage operations across multiple servers, including the RAID controllers as well as the physical disks in
the PowerEdge system and external enclosures. Benefits include:
• iDRAC creates and executes jobs for each storage configuration operation.
• Customer can do it Real-Time or schedule reboot for a later date.
• PERC H840 supports real-time RAID monitoring and hardware inventory.
Customers can also use Dell EMC OpenManage™ Server Administrator/ Storage Services (OMSS) tools to efficiently
manage PERC products, including a pre-boot setup utilities and a full spectrum of online RAID management utilities. This
suite of applications allow administrators to adjust SAS topology views from the system host down to the logical and phys-
ical drive level. Extending to enterprise deployments, these tools can scale to easily configure, monitor and manage RAID
and JBOD volumes locally or over the LAN network.
 PowerEdge PERC H840

Features Technical Specification

Solution provided Eight-port (2- x4) external SAS solution for performance-hungry external storage environments

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

Connectors Two mini-SAS HD external SFF8644

Host bus type 8-lane, PCI Express 3.1 compliant

Data transfer rates Up to 12Gb/s per port

SAS controller LSISAS 3508 Dual Core ARM A15 Processor - ROC (RAID-On-Chip)

Cache size 1MB Shared L2 Cache. 6MB On Chip Memory

Key RAID & data RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6 4K native sector support

protection features RAID spans 10, 50, 60 Up to 64 Virtual Disks
Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) Patrol Read for media scanning and repair
Online RAID Level Migration (RLM) Support UNMAP command
Auto resume on rebuild or reconstruction S.M.A.R.T. support
Single controller multi-pathing Global and dedicated hot-spare with Revertible Hot-Spare
Load balancing support
Fast initialization for quick array setup • Automatic rebuild of hot-spare drives
Consistency Check for background data integrity • Enclosure affinity
Configurable Stripe size up to 1MB SED drive support NVRAM “Wipe” feature- protests proprietary data once card
Physical disk power management is decommissioned
(Dimmer Switch™) 6Gb/s & 12Gb/s SAS SSD support

RAID management Dell EMC OpenManage™ Additional management:

Server Administrator/Storage UEFI (HII)
Services CEM
iDRAC9
PERC CLI

Operating temperature Maximum ambient temperature: 60°C

Operating voltage +3.3V, +12V and +3.3V_Aux

Operating systems Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012

Microsoft® Windows Server® 2016
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6.5
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 7.0 or later
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12
Virtualization options:
VMware® 6.5

Warranty 3-Year Standard Warranty. Up to five-year warranty available for controller & battery with extended warranty.

1 H840 will ship with matching 8GB DRAM & NV Cache. 4GB will be enabled at launch with the additional 4GB enabled
through a firmware release post launch.

Learn more at Dell.com/PowerEdge

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