Lenovo ServeRAID M5210 Product Manual page 6

Feature upgrade matrix
The ServeRAID M5210 and M5210e provide support for RAID 0, 1, and 10 as standard capabilities.
Additional optional functional upgrades are available to expand the standard capabilities. Some upgrades
do not depend on other upgrades and can be applied to standard controllers (we call them primary
upgrades). Certain upgrades cannot be applied to standard 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 supercapacitor). FoD upgrades are software licenses. The following
table lists the available primary upgrades, their capabilities, and types.
Table 2. ServeRAID M5210 and M5210e primary upgrades and their features
Option description
Zero Cache/RAID 5 Upgrade
1GB Cache/RAID 5 Upgrade
1GB Flash/RAID 5 Upgrade
2GB Flash/RAID 5 Upgrade
4GB 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 that is listed in the column must be enabled before
enabling the secondary feature that is listed in that particular row.
Table 3. ServeRAID M5210 and M5210e secondary upgrades, their features, and dependencies
Primary
feature upgrades
Secondary
feature upgrades
Feature Option
description
RAID 6 and RAID 6 Upgrade
60
FastPath SSD Performance
Accelerator
CacheCade SSD Caching
Enabler
Note: All ServeRAID Feature on Demand upgrades are system-wide. One FoD upgrade part number will
enable the feature on all ServeRAID M5200-series adapters (M5210, M5210e, M5215, M5225) installed in
the server. In the case of the x3950 X6, if you have partitioning enabled, then the FoD upgrade will enabled
the feature on all M5200-series adapters installed in that partition; the other partition will require a separate
FoD upgrade.
ServeRAID M5210 and M5210e SAS/SATA Controllers
Feature RAID 5 & 50
Part number Type
47C8708 FoD
47C8656 HW
47C8660 HW
47C8664 HW
47C8668 HW
Option Zero
description
Cache/
RAID 5
Part number 47C8708
Upgrade type FoD
Part Type
number
47C8706 FoD No support
47C8710 FoD No support
47C8712 FoD No support
SED 1 GB
cache
Yes Yes No
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes No
Yes Yes No
1GB 1GB
Cache/ Flash/
RAID 5 RAID 5
47C8656 47C8660
HW HW
Required Required
Required Required
Required Required
2 GB 4 GB Flash-
cache cache backed
cache
No No No
No No No
No No Yes
Yes No Yes
No Yes Yes
2GB 4GB
Flash/ Flash/
RAID 5 RAID 5
47C8664 47C8668
HW HW
Required Required
Required Required
Required Required
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