IBM ServeRAID M5110e Product Manual page 7

Feature upgrade matrix
The ServeRAID M5110 and M5110e SAS/SATA controllers provide support for RAID 0, 1, and 10 as
standard "out-of-the-box" capabilities. Additional functional upgrades optionally are available to expand
the standard capabilities. Some upgrades do not depend on other upgrades and can be applied to
"out-of-the-box" controllers (we call them primary upgrades). Certain upgrades cannot be applied to
"out-of-the-box" controllers and require that other upgrades are enabled before applying these upgrades
(we call them secondary upgrades). There are two types of available upgrades: hardware (HW) and
Feature-on-Demand (FoD). Hardware upgrades contain physical parts (for example, cache module or
battery). FoD upgrades are software licenses. The following table lists the available primary upgrades,
their capabilities, and types.
Table 2. ServeRAID M5110 and M5110e primary upgrades and their features
Option description
ServeRAID M5100 Series Zero
Cache/RAID 5 Upgrade
ServeRAID M5100 Series 512MB
Cache/RAID 5 Upgrade
ServeRAID M5100 Series 512MB
Flash/RAID 5 Upgrade
ServeRAID M5100 Series 1GB Flash/RAID
5 Upgrade
The following table shows the secondary upgrades, their capabilities, types, and dependencies. The
primary feature upgrades, on which the secondary upgrades depend, are listed in their respective
columns. "Required" means that the primary upgrade listed in the column must be enabled before
enabling the secondary feature listed in that particular row.
Table 3. ServeRAID M5110 and M5110e secondary upgrades, their features, and dependencies
Primary feature upgrades
Secondary feature upgrades
Feature
Battery-backed cache
RAID 6, 60
FastPath
CacheCade Pro 2.0
ServeRAID M5110 and M5110e SAS/SATA Controllers for IBM System x
Part
number
81Y4544
81Y4484
81Y4487
81Y4559
Option description
Battery Kit
RAID 6 Upgrade
SSD Performance
Accelerator
SSD Caching Enabler
Feature RAID 5, 50 SED
Type
FoD Yes
HW Yes
HW Yes
HW Yes
Option description Zero
Cache/
RAID 5
Part number 81Y4544 81Y4484 81Y4487 81Y4559
Type FoD
Part number Type
81Y4508 HW
support
81Y4546 FoD
support
90Y4273 FoD
support
90Y4318 FoD
support
512 MB 1 GB
DDR3 DDR3
cache cache
Yes No No
Yes Yes No
Yes Yes No
Yes No Yes
512 MB 512 MB
Cache/ Flash/
RAID 5 RAID 5
HW HW
No Required No
support
No Required Require
d
No Required Require
d
No Required Require
d
Flash-
backed
cache
No
No
Yes
Yes
1 GB
Flash/
RAID 5
HW
No
support
Required
Required
Required
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