Dell PowerVault MD3200i Support Matrix page 3

be run in unified mode.
A hot spare for a disk group
must be a physical disk of
equal or greater size than
any of the member disks.
When using out-of-band
management with SMcli by
specifying the RAID
Controller management port
IP addresses on the MD
Storage Array, SMcli
commands that change the
attributes of a virtual disk,
virtual disk copy, or snapshot
virtual disk, must have
management access to the
owning RAID Controller
Module to complete. Where
applicable it is a best practice
to specify both management
port IP addresses on the
SMcli invocation: "SMcli
192.168.128.101
192.168.128.102 -c".
Co-existence of multiple
Linux multi-pathing drivers is
not supported. When using a
MD3200 Series or MD3600
Series array with Linux host
servers only the Linux
Device Mapper failover driver
is supported. **
On Linux systems Device
Mapper multi-pathing drivers
are required for multi-path
support
Virtual disks on an MD3200
Series or MD3600 Series
cannot be used for booting.
RAID 5 and RAID 6 disk
groups are limited to a
maximum of 30 physical
disks
Disk Groups can be migrated
between a Dell PowerVault
MD3200 or MD3200i or
MD3600i by following the
appropriate Disk Group
migration procedure***
All iSCSI Host ports on a
controller have to be at the
same port speed
iSCSI Host ports will only
auto-negotiate to the port
speed set in MDSM
Only single path iSCSI boot
is supported for all Linux
OS's. Multi-path iSCSI boot
on Linux is not supported.
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Not Applicable for SAS
Not Applicable for SAS
Not Applicable for SAS
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Only 1Gbps Supported
Only 1Gbps Supported
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