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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