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Latest Update April 2010 Dell™ PowerVault™ M D1000 Systems Support Matrix.
2 Table of Contents Supported RAID Controllers .......................................................................................... 3 PERC 5/E Adapter ..............................................................................................
3 De ll™ PowerVault™ MD1000 Systems Support Matrix This document pr ovides info rmation on s upported sof tware and h ardware for Dell PowerV ault MD1000 Systems. The Power Vault MD1000 supported s oftware and hardware ar e directly tied to the RAID contr oller to whic h it is attached.
4 PERC 6/E Adapt er Table 2. PERC 6/E Minimum Revision Requirements for PowerVault MD1000 Systems (SAS/S ATA) Component Minimum Revision Notes Firmware 6.0.1-0080 Firmware Microsoft ® Windows ® 2003 Server and Windows Server 2008 2.14.0.32 Driver Microsoft Windows Server ® 2003 x64 2.
5 Supported Operating Systems I f a PERC 5/E o r PERC 6 /E is supported in a server then the PowerVault MD1000 is supported on tha t server. To determin e the lates t supported operating s ystem perf orm the foll owing two st eps: 1) Reference www.dell.
6 Table 4. Supported Hard Drives for PowerVault MD1000 Systems Drive descriptio n Model Number Minimu m Firmware L evel Maxtor SAS 73 GB 10K RPM ATLAS10K5_073SAS BP05 Maxtor SAS 146 GB 10K RPM ATLAS10.
7 Seagate (15K.5) SAS 300 GB 15K RPM ST3300655SS Seagate (15K.6) SAS 146GB 15K RPM ST3146356SS Seagate (15K.6) SAS 300GB 15K RPM ST3300656SS Seagate (15K.6) SAS 450GB 15K RPM ST3450856SS Seagate (Cheetah 15K.7) SAS 300GB 15K RPM ST3300657SS Seagate (Cheetah 15K.
8 Seagate (Constellation ES) SATA 2TB 7.2K RPM ST32000544NS Western Digital (WD2500JS) SATA 250 GB 7.2K RPM WD2500JS - 75NCB3 2E04 Western Digital (WD2500YS) SATA 250 GB 7.2K RPM WD2500YS -18SHB2 6C05 Western Digital (RE) SATA 500GB 7.2K RPM WD5000YS - 18MPB 1 2E0A Western Digital (RE1) SATA 500 GB 7.
9 Figure 1. Supported Hardware Configuration Figure 2. Max Configuration on a Single PERC 5/E or PERC 6/E Controller ( both ports connected) The PERC 6/E adapter can detect and use redundant paths to drives contained in an MD100 0 enclosure.
10 Figure 3. Redundant Path with 1 Encl osure Supported Config uration/Setup Unsupported Config uration /Setup Figure 4. Redundant Path with 2 Encl osures Supported Config uration/Setup Unsupported Config uration / Setup Figure 5.
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