PM8242A-F3EI Integrated Circuit Chip 12Gbps 24-Port Smart I/O Controller with RAID 0/1/10/5 for Storage
SmartIOC SAS I/O Controller products provide reliable ultrahigh performance HBA functionality with industry-leading low-power operation. These SmartIOCs provide unparalleled flexibility along with a broad range of standard features designed to meet the most demanding server storage applications.
PM8242A-F3EI offer optional entry-level hardware RAID 0/1/10/5 modes without any external DRAM. These devices also offer additional dedicated RAID-capable boot ports.
PM8242A-F3EI support Microsemi Smart Storage solution drivers for all major operating systems and a comprehensive set of management tools, including a GUI and CLI.
- Product Type: IOC Controller
- Port Count Supported Devices: 24
- Generation: 12 Gbps
- Interface: 8-Lane PCIe Gen 3
- RAID Level: 0, 1, 10, 5
- Physical Dimensions: 27 mm x 27 mm
- 24 12G SAS/SATA ports with RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, and 60 with hardware acceleration and no additional host software requirements
- Two additional 6G SAS/SATA boot ports
- Introduces hardware RAID 5 at no additional cost
- Flexible configuration for RAID mode
- No DDR memory required, regardless of mode
- Compatible with Smart Storage solution drivers for all major operating systems and Smart Storage solution unified management utilities
- Persistent logging and binding
- Up to 1.6M IOPS performance (4K random reads)
- Up to 6.9 GB/s bandwidth
- Transport Layer Retry (TLR) support
- Multi-initiator (host)/clustering for SAS
- TRIM and UNMAP support for SSDs
- SAS dual path failover (RAID stack managed Active/Standby)
- Baseboard management controller (BMC) support with Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) over PCIe or I2C
- 4K native sector support
- Hot plug drive support
- Adapter power management modes
- S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic access
- SMP commands using ARCONF
- Supports eight lanes of PCIe 3.0 to the host, each lane supporting PCIe Gen 3 rates up to 8.0 Gbps
- Enclosure Management: SES-2/3 SGPIO: SFF-8485; IBPI: SFF-8489; SGPIO as a virtual SES enclosure: SFF-8448
- Flexible configuration for RAID mode
- Dynamic sector repair
- Multiple LUN support
- Support for up to 238 raw devices
- Support for up to 32 target devices in RAID mode
- Supports up to eight SAS/SATA Logical/RAID volumes
- Split mirror and combine
- Copyback hot spare
- Displays raw devices on connector
- RAID Build modes: Quick Initialization, Background Initialization, Rapid Parity Initialization
- Heal array and Move array
- Bootable array support
- Erase drive
- Configurable stripe size
- Bad stripe marking
- Hot spare support (dedicated, global, or predictive)
- Persistent logging for RAID and HBA
- 4K native sector support in RAID
- MaxView GUI
- ARCCONF CLI
- Event Monitor (event logging and email alerts)
- VSphere plug-in
- OpenStack plug-in
- Smart Storage Administrator CLI
- UEFI HII configuration tool
- CTRL-A Legacy BIOS configuration tool
- ChipLink diagnostic tools
Extensive operating system supports includes major software releases for 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.
- 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
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
- Industry-leading throughput
- Compatible with Microsemi Smart Storage solution drivers for all major operating systems and their unified management utilities
- Two additional 6G SAS/SATA boot ports with RAID 1 support
- RAID 0, 1, 10, 5 with hardware acceleration and no additional host software requirements
- No DDR memory required, regardless of mode
- The PM8243 includes support for maxCrypto controller-based encryption
| Part Number | Package |
|---|---|
| OPA814DR | 8-SOIC |
| INA310B4QDGKRQ1 | 8-TSSOP |
| INA310A2QDGKRQ1 | 8-TSSOP |
| INA310A1QDGKRQ1 | 8-TSSOP |
| INA310A5QDGKRQ1 | 8-TSSOP |
| INA310B2QDGKRQ1 | 8-TSSOP |
| INA310A3QDGKRQ1 | 8-TSSOP |
| INA296A2QDDFRQ1 | SOT-23-8 |
| INA241A2IDDFR | SOT-23-8 |
| INA186A1QDDFRQ1 | SOT-23-8 |
| INA190A2QDDFRQ1 | SOT-23-8 |
| INA296A2IDDFR | SOT-23-8 |
| INA241B3IDDFR | SOT-23-8 |
| INA241A5IDDFR | SOT-23-8 |
| INA190A4IDCKR | 6-TSSOP |
| INA293A4QDBVRQ1 | SOT-23-5 |
| INA281B2QDBVRQ1 | SOT-23-5 |
| INA281A5QDBVRQ1 | SOT-23-5 |
| INA293B2QDBVRQ1 | SOT-23-5 |
| INA240A1QDRQ1 | 8-SOIC |
| INA250A4QPWRQ1 | 16-TSSOP |
| INA181A2QDBVRQ1 | SOT-23-6 |
| INA240A2QPWRQ1 | 8-TSSOP |
| LMP8480ASQDGKRQ1 | 8-TSSOP |
| INA210BQDCKRQ1 | 6-TSSOP |
| INA293A5IDBVR | SOT-23-5 |
| INA240A2QDRQ1 | 8-SOIC |
| INA303A1QPWRQ1 | 14-TSSOP |
| INA253A1QPWRQ1 | 20-TSSOP |
| INA241A3QDGKRQ1 | 8-TSSOP |
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