Supported Operating Systems - Dell PowerEdge VRTX User Manual

Specification
Cache policies
Maximum number of spans per disk group
Maximum number of virtual disks per disk group
Dedicated and global hot spares
Hot swap devices supported
Hardware XOR engine
Virtual disk initialization; background, full, and fast
Consistency check
Disk roaming
FastPath
Virtual disk migration between two Shared PERC 8
cards
SMART detection
Patrol Read
Automatic replace member
SAS (HDD/SSD) hard drive
Physical disk power management
SATA (HDD/SSD) hard drive
Manual replace member
Online capacity expansion
Virtual disk migration from PERC H310, H710, or
H710P cards to a Shared PERC 8 card
Cachecade
Local Key Management (LKM)
PCIe hot-plug of controller

Supported Operating Systems

The Shared PERC 8 card supports the following operating systems:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 including Hyper-V virtualization
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
6
Shared PERC 8 Card Capabilities
Write Back, Write Through, Adaptive Read Ahead, No Read
Ahead, and Read Ahead
Eight
16
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
NOTE: FastPath is not supported on systems implementing
VMware.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IDLE-C for compliant HDDs only. No support for balanced,
maximum, and customized power savings.
Only supported on PERC H310, H710, and H710P cards
Only supported on PERC H310, H710, and H710P cards
Only supported on PERC H310, H710, and H710P cards
No
Only supported on PERC H310, H710, and H710P cards
Only supported on PERC H310, H710, and H710P cards
No