The SmartROC 3100 24-port RAID-on-Chip controller offers industry-leading performance and power savings with support for hardware RAID 0/1/10/5/50/6/60 and native HBA modes. Two additional 6G SAS/SATA boot ports with RAID 1 support are available. One GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB DDR4 memory with speeds up to 2133 MT/s, providing access to volume DDR at top-line performance are supported. The SmartRoC 3100 also includes support for maxCrypto controller-based encryption and supports Smart Storage solution drivers for all major operating systems and a comprehensive set of management tools, including a GUI and CLI. The 12 Gbps SmartROC 3100 controllers are featured on the 12 Gbps SmartRAID 3100 Series RAID Adapters.
Additional Features
24 12Gbps SAS/SATA ports with RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6 and 60 with hardware acceleration
Two additional 6G SAS/SATA boot ports with RAID 1 support
Native HBA modes
Supports 1 GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB DDR4 memory with speeds up to 2133 MT/s, providing access to volume DDR at top-line performance
Compatible with Smart Storage solution drivers for all major operating systems and Smart Storage solution unified management utilities
Support for maxCrypto controller-based encryption
SmartRAID Solution Features
Flexible configuration for RAID mode
Displays raw devices on connector
RAID Build Modes (Quick initialization, Background initialization and Rapid parity initialization)
SAS dual path failover (RAID stack managed Active/Standby)
SMP commands using ARCCONF
Dynamic sector repair
Split mirror and combine
Copyback hot spare
Heal array and Move array
Bootable array support
Erase drive
Configurable stripe size
Bad stripe marking
Hot spare support (dedicated, global, or predictive)
Ultra-High Performance and Feature-Rich
Persistent logging for RAID and HBA
4K native support for RAID and HBA
Adapter power management modes
Multiple LUN support
Support for up to 238 raw devices
Support for up to 238 target devices in RAID mode
Supports up to 64 SAS/SATA logical/RAID volumes
Up to 1.6M IOPS performance (4K random reads)
Up to 145K IOPS RAID 5 performance (4K random writes)
SAS expander support
Transport Layer Retry (TLR) support
Baseboard management controller (BMC) support with Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) over PCIe or I2C
Enclosure Management: SES-2/3; SGPIO: SFF‑8485; IBPI: SFF-8489; SGPIO as a virtual SES enclosure: SFF-8448
Up to 6.9 GB/s bandwidth
Up to 3.8 GB/s RAID 5 throughput
Hot plug drive support
S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic access
Supports eight lanes of PCIe 3.0 to the host, each lane supporting PCIe Gen 3 rates up to 8.0 Gbps
SATA Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
Storage Management Utilities
MaxView GUI
ARCCONF CLI
Event Monitor (event logging and email alerts)
VSphere plug-in
OpenStack plug-in
Smart Storage Administrator CLI
Third-Generation Green Backup
Integrated controller automatically backs up DDR cache to NAND flash after a power failure
ONFi 1.0, 2.x, and 3.0
Tools for Setup and Troubleshooting
UEFI HII configuration tool
CTRL-A Legacy BIOS configuration tool
ChipLink diagnostic tools
Operating System Support
Extensive operating system supports includes major software releases for Microsoft Windows/Server, VMware ESXi, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, XenServer, Fedora, Debian, and Solaris
Certification for Microsoft WHQL, VMware IOVP, and VMwareVSAN
High-Speed I/O
x8 PCIe Gen 3 8 GT/s (supporting 8 GT/s, 5 GT/s, 2.5 GT/s)
PCIe-compliant link training and manual PHY configuration
24x SAS-3 PHYs for high-speed targets (SAS 12 Gbps, 6 Gbps, 3 Gbps, or SATA 6 Gbps, 3 Gbps, 1.5 Gbps)
2x SAS-2 PHYs for boot devices (SAS 6 Gbps, 3 Gbps, or SATA 6 Gbps, 3 Gbps, 1.5 Gbps)
SAS or SATA operation on a per-PHY basis
Independent per-channel selectable high-speed outputs support multiple programmable levels of pre-emphasis and output swing
Multiple programmable levels of receive equalization
Integrated resistive termination
Automatic negotiation of link speed
Decision Feedback Equalizer provides robust recovery of 12 Gbps SAS signals over lossy channels
Peripheral I/O Interfaces ( Note: Some peripheral I/O interface pins are multiplexed)
Eight multi-master and seven master-only two-wire interfaces (TWIs) support variable bit rates up to 400 Kbps
Two industry-standard 16750 UARTs
Seven SFF-8485-compliant serial GPIO (SGPIO) ports
Up to 30 GPIO ports depending on SGPIO port configuration
Firmware API for peripheral control, including features such as activity LED, UART configuration, zoning configuration, interprocessor communications, and enclosure control
maxCrypto Encryption
AES data encryption and decryption with key sizes of 128/196/256 bits.
The SmartROC 3100 24-port RAID-on-Chip controller offers industry-leading performance and power savings with support for hardware RAID 0/1/10/5/50/6/60 and native HBA modes. Two additional 6G SAS/SATA boot ports with RAID 1 support are available. One GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB DDR4 memory with speeds up to 2133 MT/s, providing access to volume DDR at top-line performance are supported. The SmartRoC 3100 also includes support for maxCrypto controller-based encryption and supports Smart Storage solution drivers for all major operating systems and a comprehensive set of management tools, including a GUI and CLI.
The 12 Gbps SmartROC 3100 controllers are featured on the 12 Gbps SmartRAID 3100 Series RAID Adapters.
Additional Features
- 24 12Gbps SAS/SATA ports with RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6 and 60 with hardware acceleration
- Two additional 6G SAS/SATA boot ports with RAID 1 support
- Native HBA modes
- Supports 1 GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB DDR4 memory with speeds up to 2133 MT/s, providing access to volume DDR at top-line performance
- Compatible with Smart Storage solution drivers for all major operating systems and Smart Storage solution unified management utilities
- Support for maxCrypto controller-based encryption
- SmartRAID Solution Features
- Flexible configuration for RAID mode
- Displays raw devices on connector
- RAID Build Modes (Quick initialization, Background initialization and Rapid parity initialization)
- SAS dual path failover (RAID stack managed Active/Standby)
- SMP commands using ARCCONF
- Dynamic sector repair
- Split mirror and combine
- Copyback hot spare
- Heal array and Move array
- Bootable array support
- Erase drive
- Configurable stripe size
- Bad stripe marking
- Hot spare support (dedicated, global, or predictive)
- Ultra-High Performance and Feature-Rich
- Persistent logging for RAID and HBA
- 4K native support for RAID and HBA
- Adapter power management modes
- Multiple LUN support
- Support for up to 238 raw devices
- Support for up to 238 target devices in RAID mode
- Supports up to 64 SAS/SATA logical/RAID volumes
- Up to 1.6M IOPS performance (4K random reads)
- Up to 145K IOPS RAID 5 performance (4K random writes)
- SAS expander support
- Transport Layer Retry (TLR) support
- Baseboard management controller (BMC) support with Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) over PCIe or I2C
- Enclosure Management: SES-2/3; SGPIO: SFF‑8485; IBPI: SFF-8489; SGPIO as a virtual SES enclosure: SFF-8448
- Up to 6.9 GB/s bandwidth
- Up to 3.8 GB/s RAID 5 throughput
- Hot plug drive support
- S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic access
- Supports eight lanes of PCIe 3.0 to the host, each lane supporting PCIe Gen 3 rates up to 8.0 Gbps
- SATA Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
- Storage Management Utilities
- MaxView GUI
- ARCCONF CLI
- Event Monitor (event logging and email alerts)
- VSphere plug-in
- OpenStack plug-in
- Smart Storage Administrator CLI
- Third-Generation Green Backup
- Integrated controller automatically backs up DDR cache to NAND flash after a power failure
- ONFi 1.0, 2.x, and 3.0
- Tools for Setup and Troubleshooting
- UEFI HII configuration tool
- CTRL-A Legacy BIOS configuration tool
- ChipLink diagnostic tools
- Operating System Support
- Extensive operating system supports includes major software releases for Microsoft Windows/Server, VMware ESXi, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, XenServer, Fedora, Debian, and Solaris
- Certification for Microsoft WHQL, VMware IOVP, and VMwareVSAN
- High-Speed I/O
- x8 PCIe Gen 3 8 GT/s (supporting 8 GT/s, 5 GT/s, 2.5 GT/s)
- PCIe-compliant link training and manual PHY configuration
- 24x SAS-3 PHYs for high-speed targets (SAS 12 Gbps, 6 Gbps, 3 Gbps, or SATA 6 Gbps, 3 Gbps, 1.5 Gbps)
- 2x SAS-2 PHYs for boot devices (SAS 6 Gbps, 3 Gbps, or SATA 6 Gbps, 3 Gbps, 1.5 Gbps)
- SAS or SATA operation on a per-PHY basis
- Independent per-channel selectable high-speed outputs support multiple programmable levels of pre-emphasis and output swing
- Multiple programmable levels of receive equalization
- Integrated resistive termination
- Automatic negotiation of link speed
- Decision Feedback Equalizer provides robust recovery of 12 Gbps SAS signals over lossy channels
- Peripheral I/O Interfaces ( Note: Some peripheral I/O interface pins are multiplexed)
- Eight multi-master and seven master-only two-wire interfaces (TWIs) support variable bit rates up to 400 Kbps
- Two industry-standard 16750 UARTs
- Seven SFF-8485-compliant serial GPIO (SGPIO) ports
- Up to 30 GPIO ports depending on SGPIO port configuration
- Firmware API for peripheral control, including features such as activity LED, UART configuration, zoning configuration, interprocessor communications, and enclosure control
- maxCrypto Encryption
- AES data encryption and decryption with key sizes of 128/196/256 bits.
