Contents1 Overview........................................................................................................................................................ 7PERC S140 specifications................................................................................................................................................. 7Supported operating systems...........................................................................................................................................9Supported PowerEdge systems.......................................................................................................................................9Supported physical disks................................................................................................................................................. 10Management applications for the PERC S140..............................................................................................................102 Physical Disks............................................................................................................................................... 11Physical disk features........................................................................................................................................................11Physical disk roaming.................................................................................................................................................. 11Physical disk hot-swapping........................................................................................................................................ 11Physical disk power management............................................................................................................................. 11Physical disk failure detection.................................................................................................................................... 11Mirror rebuilding.......................................................................................................................................................... 12Fault tolerance.............................................................................................................................................................12Self-Monitoring And Reporting Technology............................................................................................................ 12Native Command Queuing........................................................................................................................................ 12NVMe PCIe SSD support.......................................................................................................................................... 12Physical disk write cache policy for SATA drives.................................................................................................... 13Linux RAID................................................................................................................................................................... 133 Virtual Disks................................................................................................................................................. 14Virtual disk features.......................................................................................................................................................... 14TRIM for SATA SSDs..................................................................................................................................................14Disk initialization..........................................................................................................................................................15Background Array Scan............................................................................................................................................. 15Checkpointing............................................................................................................................................................. 15Virtual disk cache policies.......................................................................................................................................... 16Virtual disk migration.................................................................................................................................................. 16Expanding virtual disk capacity................................................................................................................................. 174 Cabling the drives for S140...........................................................................................................................18Disk connectivity for AHCI devices................................................................................................................................ 195 BIOS Configuration Utility........................................................................................................................... 20Entering the BIOS configuration utility...........................................................................................................................21Exiting the BIOS Configuration Utility............................................................................................................................ 21Initializing the physical disks............................................................................................................................................ 21Converting to RAID disks...........................................................................................................................................21Converting to Non-RAID disks................................................................................................................................. 22Creating the virtual disks.................................................................................................................................................22Selecting virtual disk sizes while creating a virtual disk ........................................................................................22Contents 3