Controllers For Internal Storage - Lenovo ThinkServer TS450 Product Manual

Controllers for internal storage

The following table lists the internal RAID controllers and the additional options that are used for the internal
disk storage of the TS450 server.
Table 6. Controllers for internal storage
Description
RAID controllers
ThinkServer RAID 121i Controller
ThinkServer RAID 520i PCIe Adapter
ThinkServer RAID 520i RAID 5 Upgrade
ThinkServer RAID 720i PCIe Adapter
ThinkServer RAID 720i 1GB Modular DRAM Upgrade
ThinkServer RAID 720i 1GB Modular Flash and Supercapacitor Upgrade
ThinkServer RAID 720i 2GB Modular Flash and Supercapacitor Upgrade
ThinkServer RAID 720i 4GB Modular Flash and Supercapacitor Upgrade
SAS expander adapters
ThinkServer 12Gb RAID Expander Card
# RAID 121i is an onboard hardware-assist RAID controller.
The RAID 121i is an onboard RAID controller that does not consume a PCIe slot. The RAID 520i and RAID
720i adapters are supported only in the PCIe slot 1. The RAID Expander Card is supported only in the PCIe
slot 3.
Important: The RAID 121i controller is not supported by virtualization hypervisors, including VMware
vSphere (ESXi), Linux KVM, Xen, and Microsoft Hyper-V.
Lenovo ThinkServer TS450
Maximum
Part number supported
None# 1
4XC0G88840 1
4XC0G88841 1
4XC0G88831 1
4XB0F28695 1
4XB0F28696 1
4XB0F28697 1
4XB0F28698 1
4XC0G88843 1
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