Dell manual Drive Support, Operating System Support with Perc H700 and Perc H800

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Table 5. Operating System Support with PERC H700 and PERC H800

Supported Operating Systems

Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 Family

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Family

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Version 4 and Version 5

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® Linux® Enterprise Server Version 10 (64-bit) and Version 11 (64-bit)

SLES10 SP2 and later

SLES11 GM and later

VMware® vSphere™ 4.1 (including VMware ESX® 4.1 or VMware ESXi™ 4.1)

For the most up-to-date information on supported operating systems, see the Operating System Support Matrix for Dell PowerEdge Systems on Dell.com.

3.4Drive Support

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 Why Customers Should Insist on DELLTM Hard Drives for Enterprise Systems.

	Table 6.	Drive Support
Drive Type	Interface	PERC H700	PERC H800
	6Gb/s SAS	Yes	Yes
HDD	3Gb/s SAS	Yes	Yes
	3Gb/s SATA	Yes	No
SSD	3Gb/s SAS	Yes	Yes
	3Gb/s SATA	Yes	No

SATA interface drives are not supported with PERC H800 and the Dell PowerVault MD1200 and MD1220 enclosures.

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