Cisco Systems A03D600GA2 Select RAID Options, Available Embedded RAID Options, UCSC-RAID-ROM5

CONFIGURING the SERVER

Select RAID Options

Select one of the following (these choices are dependent on the number of CPUs installed):

■One embedded RAID upgrade option for internal drives, or

■One mezzanine RAID controller for internal drives, or

■One RAID controller for external drives, or

■One RAID controller for internal drives, or

■One mezzanine RAID controller for internal drives and one RAID controller for external drives

	NOTE: For all valid combinations of embedded RAID, mezzanine RAID, and
	internal/external RAID controller combinations, see RAID Details, page 65.
Table 6 Available Embedded RAID Options
Product ID (PID)	PID Description
RAID Controllers
UCSC-RAID-ROM5	Onboard RAID, consisting of a plug-in storage controller unit (SCU), supporting
	up to 8 internal SAS +SATA drives. SAS and SATA drives can be mixed. This
	option supports RAID 0, 1, and 10, and operates at 3 Gb/s. Operating systems
	supported are Windows and Linux only (no VMware support).
UCSC-RAID-ROM55	Onboard RAID, consisting of two plug-in modules (an SCU plus a software key
	module) supporting up to 8 internal SAS+SATA drives. SAS and SATA drives can
	be mixed. This option supports RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 and operates at 3 Gb/s.

Operating systems supported are Windows and Linux only (no VMware support).

NOTE: VMware ESX/ESXi or any other virtualized environments are not supported for use with the embedded MegaRAID controller. Hypervisors such as Hyper-V, Xen, or KVM are also not supported for use with the embedded MegaRAID controller

Table 7 Available Mezzanine Card RAID Options

Product ID (PID) PID Description

Mezzanine RAID Controllers (not supported in 1-CPU systems)

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