Dell 3i Dell Supported Configurations

Solution Guide 7

Hard drives represent one of the greatest sources of hardware failures in data

center environments. Shared storage arrays (fibre channel or iSCSI) are better

suited for virtual machine (VM) and data storage than local hard drives,

providing higher levels of performance and increased single point of failure

recovery. Additionally, solid-state, internal storage is easier to configure than

other hard drive-less solutions, such as Boot-from-SAN. Because shared

storage arrays are required to take advantage of ESX Server 3i enterprise and

standard-level features, Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) and High-

Availability (HA), server local hard drives are not needed.

Dell offers VMware ESX Server 3i pre-installed direct from the Dell factory,

enabling greatly simplified data center deployment and provisioning. For the

first time, VMware users have the ability to go from box to rack to processing

workloads in minutes.

Dell Supported Configurations

Server PowerEdge R805

Processors Two Dual/Quad Core AMD Opteron 2200/2300

Memory (Min/Max) 8 GB/128 GB

Storage Adapters for Internal

Disks

PERC 6/i Integrated;

SAS 6/iR Integrated

Storage Adapter for External

Disks

SAS 5/E

PERC 6/E

Fibre Channel HBA

(required for SAN

connectivity only)

All supported Fibre Channel HBAs

Networking Four integrated network ports, All supported

peripheral NICs

Dell Remote Access

Controller (DRAC)

DRAC 5 (required)

Internal Storage Up to two 2.5” SAS/SATA disks