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DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide 12
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.
3.4 Drive 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
HDD
6Gb/s SAS
Yes
Yes
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.