Drive Support; Table 5. Operating System Support With Perc H700 And Perc H800 - Dell POWEREDGE RADI H700 Technical Manual

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Table 5.
Supported Operating Systems
Microsoft
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Family
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
®
Red Hat
RHEL 4.7 and later (32 and 64 bit)
RHEL 5.3 and later (32 and 64 bit)
®
Sun Solaris™ 10 (64-bit)
®
Novell SUSE
SLES10 SP2 and later
SLES11 GM and later
®
VMware
For the most up-to-date information on supported operating systems, see the
Support Matrix for Dell PowerEdge Systems on Dell.com.

Drive Support

3.4
The Dell PERC H700 supports SAS and SATA interface drives, both HDD (hard-disk drive) and SSD
(solid-state drive). The Dell PERC H800 supports SAS interface drives, both HDD and SSD. Refer to the
following table for drive support details. For specific form-factor and capacity support, see the
Technical Guidebook for your server at http://www.dell.com.
Non Dell certified drives will be blocked. For more information on the benefits of using Dell certified
drives, see the Dell Point of View paper
Enterprise Systems.
Drive Type
HDD
SSD
SATA interface drives are not supported with PERC H800 and the Dell PowerVault MD1200 and
MD1220 enclosures.
DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide
Operating System Support with PERC H700 and PERC H800
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Windows Server 2003 Family
®
Enterprise Linux Version 4 and Version 5
® ®
Linux Enterprise Server Version 10 (64-bit) and Version 11 (64-bit)
vSphere™ 4.1 (including VMware ESX
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Table 6.
Interface
6Gb/s SAS
3Gb/s SAS
3Gb/s SATA
3Gb/s SAS
3Gb/s SATA
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4.1 or VMware ESXi™ 4.1)

Drive Support

PERC H700
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Operating System
TM
Hard Drives for
PERC H800
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
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