Supported Operating Systems; Getting Started With Your Perc Card; Related Documentation - Dell PowerEdge H730P User Manual

Supported Operating Systems

The PERC H730P card supports the following operating systems:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 including Hyper-V virtualization
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and later
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 2
• VMware ESXi 5.1 Update 1
• VMware ESXi 5.5
• VMware vSphere 6.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6.4 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6.5 (64-bit)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 for HPC Compute Node
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 4.0 (64-bit)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 10 SP4 (64-bit)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 11 SP3 (64-bit)
• Citrix XenServer 6.x
NOTE: For the latest list of supported operating systems and driver installation instructions, see
the system documentation at dell.com/support/manuals. For specific operating system service
pack requirements, see the Drivers and Downloads section at dell.com/support/manuals.

Getting Started With Your PERC Card

1. Unpack your PERC H730P card.
2. Cable the PERC card inside the Dell PowerEdge R920 system. See
3. Boot to the operating system.
4. Download and install the drivers and firmware for the PERC H730P card. See
5. Create virtual disks and specify RAID levels for your hard drives using any of the utilities mentioned
below:
• BIOS Configuration, see
• PERC CLI, see Using PERC CLI
• OMSS, see Dell OpenManage Storage Management

Related Documentation

NOTE: For all storage controllers and PCIe SSD documents, go to dell.com/
storagecontrollermanuals.
NOTE: For all Dell OpenManage documents, go to dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
NOTE: For all operating system documents, go to dell.com/operatingsystemmanuals.
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BIOS Configuration Utility
Deploying The PERC Card.
Driver Installation.