SYSTEM CONFIGURATION GUIDE
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NEC Express5800R120g-1M
NEC Corporation
Revision 6.0
– April, 2017
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Required Components for RAID Configuration
Up to four Drives with embedded SATA Controller
Category
Product Name / Description
Part Number
Storage Controller
Embedded SATA Controller
4 x 6Gb/s SATA
(Standard)
Cable
Internal SATA Cable
1 x mini-SAS HD to 1 x mini-SAS HD
(Standard)
Drive Cage
2.5-inch Drive Cage
8 x 2.5-inch Hot-plug hard drive bays
(Standard)
NOTE:
Up to 4 SATA drives are supported.
For supported HDD/SSD, refer to 4.3.1
Hot plug insertion/removal are not supported in the configuration.
RAID 0/1 Controller with 1 GB Cache
Category
Product Name / Description
Part Number
Storage Controller
Required
RAID Controller (1GB, RAID 0/1)
LSI MegaRAID SAS 9362-8i
RAID 0/1/10, 1GB, Int. 8, PCIe 3.0 x8, SAS 12Gb/s, SATA 6Gb/s
N8103-176
Flash Backup
Recommended
Flash Backup Unit
for LSI MegaRAID SAS 9362-8i
650mm Cable for Flash Backup Unit included
N8103-181
Cable
Internal SAS/SATA Cable
1 x Mini SAS HD to 1 x Mini SAS HD, 2 sets
(Standard)
Drive Cage
2.5-inch Drive Cage
8 x 2.5-inch hot plug drive bays
(Standard)
NOTE:
Up to two Flash Backup Units can be installed in the system. Therefore, N8103-181 Flash backup Unit cannot be installed for
N8103-176, N8103-177 or N8103-178 when two N8103-179 RAID controllers (including Flash Backup Unit as standard) are
installed.
For Supported HDD/SSD, refer to
4.3.2
for Windows Server 2008R2, or VMware.
Refet to
4.3.3
for Windows Server 2012/2012R2,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
All drives within a RAID array should be of the same type, capacity and rotation speed.
Up to two kinds of drives selected from SAS 10K HDDs, SAS 15K HDDs, SATA HDDs, SAS SSDs, SATA SSDs (ME) and SATA
SSDs (VE) can be mixed in each drive cage.
RAID 5/6 Controller with 1 GB Cache
Category
Product Name / Description
Part Number
Storage Controller
Required
RAID Controller (1GB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
LSI MegaRAID SAS 9362-8i
RAID0/1/5/6/10/50/60, 1GB, Int. 8, PCIe 3.0 x8, SAS 12Gb/s, SATA
6Gb/s
N8103-177
Flash Backup
Recommended
Flash Backup Unit
for LSI MegaRAID SAS 9362-8i
650mm Cable for Flash Backup Unit included
N8103-181
Cable
Internal SAS/SATA Cable
1 x Mini SAS HD to 1 x Mini SAS HD, 2 sets
(Standard)
Drive Cage
2.5-inch Drive Cage
8 x 2.5-inch hot plug drive bays
(Standard)
NOTE:
Up to two Flash Backup Units can be installed in the system. Therefore, N8103-181 Flash backup Unit cannot be installed for
N8103-176, N8103-177 or N8103-178 when two N8103-179 RAID controllers (including Flash Backup Unit as standard) are
installed.