Smart Array P731m/2GB FBWC 6Gb 4-ports Ext Mezzanine SAS Controller

Introduction

The HP Smart Array P731m Controller is a PCI-Express (PCIe) 3.0 mezzanine card supporting direct attached SAS Storage. It is one of the highest performing controllers in the HP 6Gb/s SAS portfolio and provides improved reliability, connectivity, and storage performance for HP ProLiant Gen8 server blades through its support of the latest SAS technology and advanced RAID capabilities.

Improved performance for HP ProLiant Gen8 Server blades environments

• Supports up to 227 zoned direct attached SAS or SATA hard drives per controller

Ports & interfaces

Supported storage drive interfaces

SAS, Serial ATA

Host interface

PCI Express x8

PCI Express slots version

3.0

External mini-SAS ports

4

Performance

RAID levels

0,1,5,6,10,50,60

SSD support

Y

Internal memory

2048 MB

System requirements

Compatible operating systems

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x64 & x86) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x64 & x86) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x64 & x86) VMware ESXi 5.0 U2 VMware ESXi 5.1 U1