Data Center Solutions 12 Gbps SmartIOC 2100 SAS IO Controllers PM8222, PM8225, PM8238, PM8239, PM8242 and PM8243 Summary Microchip SmartIOC 2100 SAS I/O Controller products provide reliable ultra-high perfor- mance 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. These SmartIOC controllers offer optional entry-level hardware RAID 0/1/10/5 modes without any external DRAM. The 24- and 16-port devices also offer additional dedicated RAID-capable boot ports. The controllers support Microchip Smart Storage Solution drivers for all major operating systems and a comprehensive set of management tools, including a GUI and CLI. Features HBA Features Entry-Level RAID Features Persistent logging and binding Flexible configuration for RAID mode Up to 1.6M IOPS performance for PM8242, PM8243, Dynamic sector repair PM8238, PM8239 and up to 1.4M IOPS performance for Multiple LUN support PM8222, PM8225 (4K random reads) Support for up to 238 raw devices Up to 6.9 GB/s bandwidth Support for up to 32 target devices in RAID mode Transport Layer Retry (TLR) support Supports up to eight SAS/SATA Logical/RAID volumes Multi-initiator (host)/clustering for SAS Split mirror and combine TRIM and UNMAP support for SSDs Copyback hot spare SAS dual path failover (RAID stack managed Active/ Displays raw devices on connector Standby) RAID build modes Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) support with Quick initialization Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) over Background initialization 2 PCIe or I C Rapid parity initialization 4K native sector support Heal array and move array Hot plug drive support Bootable array support Adapter power management modes Erase drive S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic access Configurable stripe size SMP commands using ARCONF Bad stripe marking Supports eight lanes of PCIe 3.0 to the host, each lane Hot spare support (dedicated, global, or predictive) supporting PCIe Gen 3 rates up to 8.0 Gbps Persistent logging for RAID and HBA Enclosure Management: SES-2/3 SGPIO: SFF-8485 IBPI: 4K native sector support in RAID SFF-8489 SGPIO as a virtual SES enclosure: SFF-8448 www.microchip.comMicrochip Storage Management Utilities High-Speed I/O TM maxView provides both server-based and remote admin- x8 PCIe Gen 3 8 GT/s istration. This fully browser-based tool supports all standard PCIe link rates supported: 8 GT/s, 5 GT/s, 2.5 GT/s browsers and is available through a USB boot image. PCIe-compliant link training and manual PHY maxView controller management components include: configuration maxView GUI PM8243/PM8242: 24x SAS-3/SATA PHYs for high-speed ARCCONF CLI targets Event Monitor (event logging and email alerts) PM8239/PM8238: 16x SAS-3/SATA PHYs for high-speed VSphere plug-in targets OpenStack plug-in PM8222/PM8225: 8x SAS-3/SATA PHYs for high-speed Smart Storage Administrator CLI targets SAS or SATA operation on a per-PHY basis Highlights SAS link rates supported: 12 Gbps, 6 Gbps, 3 Gbps Industry-leading throughput SATA link rates supported: 6 Gbps, 3 Gbps, 1.5 Gbps Compatible with Microchip Smart Storage solution drivers PM8241/PM8242 and PM8239/PM8238: 2x SAS-2/SATA for all major operating systems and their unified manage - PHYs for boot devices ment utilities Independent per-channel selectable high-speed outputs Two additional 6G SAS/SATA boot ports with RAID 1 sup- support multiple programmable levels of pre-emphasis and port included in 24 and 16 port configurations output swing RAID 0, 1, 10, 5 with hardware acceleration and no ad- Multiple programmable levels of receive equalization ditional host software requirements Integrated resistive termination No DDR memory required, regardless of mode Automatic negotiation of link speed The PM8243, PM8239, PM825 include support for Decision Feedback Equalizer provides robust recovery of maxCrypto controller-based encryption 12 Gbps SAS signals over lossy channels Tools for Setup and Troubleshooting Peripheral I/O Interfaces PM8241/PM8240 and PM8237/PM8236: Eight multi- Microchip provides a complete suite of design-in collateral to master and seven master-only Two-Wire Interfaces (TWIs) support embedded designs with this product including: refer- PM8205/PM8204: Seven multi-master and two master- ence designs, detailed hardware specifications and design-in only TWIs guides. TWIs support variable bit rates up to 400 Kbps UEFI HII configuration tool Two industry-standard 16750 UARTs CTRL-A Legacy BIOS configuration tool Seven SFF-8485-compliant Serial GPIO (SGPIO) ports ChipLink diagnostic tools Up to 30 GPIO ports depending on SGPIO port Extensive debug, diagnostics, configuration and analy - configuration sis tools with an intuitive GUI Firmware API for peripheral control including features such Access to configuration data, management capabili - as activity LED, UART configuration, zoning configuration, ties, and signal integrity analysis tools such as real- interprocessor communications and enclosure control time eye capture Connects to device over UART Note: Some peripheral I/O interface pins are multiplexed. Operating System Support maxCrypto Encryption Extensive operating system support includes major (PM8243, PM8239, PM825 Only) software releases for Windows /Server, VMware ESXi, Red AES data encryption and decryption with key sizes of Hat Enterprise Linux , SUSE Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, 128/196/256 CentOS, XenServer, Fedora, Debian, and Solaris Certification for Microsoft WHQL, VMware IOVP and VMware VSAN www.microchip.com