LSI 3ware 9750 User Manual page 16

Chapter 1. Introducing the LSI 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card
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Enclosure Management Requirements
For 9750 RAID controllers and release 10.2, enclosure management features
in 3ware software are available for supported chassis that provide SCSI
Enclosure Services 2 (SES-2) through an internal sideband connection, or via
an expander.
When chassis enclosures are cascaded, expanders of the same type are
recommended. A limit of 4 cascaded expanders is supported.
Chassis and enclosures may be cascaded up to 4 deep, per wide port.
Must support both SAS1 and SAS2, and desirable to allow both within the
same domain.
CLI supports in-band firmware downloads to the enclosure processor.
A list of supported enclosures is available at
http://www.lsi.com/channel/support/marketing_resources, through the Data &
Interoperability tab.
Operating System
3ware 9750 RAID controllers may be used with the following operating
systems for Intel and AMD 32-bit and 64-bit x86 based motherboards:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (SP2 or newer) and 2008
• Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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• openSUSE Linux
®
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
• Fedora Core Linux
• Other Linux distributions based on open source Linux 2.6 kernel
• VMware
• OpenSolaris
• FreeBSD
• Mac OS X (Intel only)
For the latest supported operating systems, see the current Release Notes at
http://www.lsi.com/channel/ChannelDownloads
available on the 3ware CD.
Other Requirements
• Adequate air flow and cooling
• Adequate power supply for drives
• 3DM2 (3ware Disk Manager 2) displays information in a browser. It
requires one of the following browsers:
3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card Software User Guide, Version 10.2
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or the file versions.txt,