Four on trays above the memory banks
The ServeRAID M5115 controller has the following specifications:
Eight internal 6 Gbps SAS/SATA ports
PCI Express 3.0 x8 host interface
6 Gbps throughput per port
800 MHz dual-core IBM PowerPC® processor with LSI SAS2208 6 Gbps RAID on Chip (ROC) controller
Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5, 50 standard; support for RAID 6 and 60 with optional upgrade using
90Y4411
Onboard 1 GB data cache (DDR3 running at 1333 MHz) with optional flash backup (MegaRAID CacheVault
technology) as part of the Enablement Kit 46C9030.
Support for SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs
Support for intermixing SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs; mixing different types of drives in the same array
(drive group) is not recommended
Support for self-encrypting drives (SEDs) with MegaRAID SafeStore
Optional support for SSD performance acceleration with MegaRAID FastPath and SSD caching with
MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 (90Y4447)
Support for up to 64 virtual drives, up to 128 drive groups, up to 16 virtual drives per one drive group, and up
to 32 physical drives per one drive group
Support for logical unit number (LUN) sizes up to 64 TB
Configurable stripe size up to 1 MB
Compliant with Disk Data Format (DDF) configuration on disk (COD)
S.M.A.R.T. support
MegaRAID Storage Manager management software
Optional add-ons to the ServeRAID M5115 controller are RAID 6 support, SSD performance upgrade, and SSD
caching enabler. The feature upgrades are as listed in the following table. These are all Feature on Demand (FoD)
license upgrades.
Table 9. Supported upgrade features
Part number
Feature code
Description
Maximum
supported
90Y4410
A2Y1
ServeRAID M5100 Series RAID 6 Upgrade for Flex System
1
90Y4412
A2Y2
ServeRAID M5100 Series Performance Upgrade for Flex System
(MegaRAID FastPath)
1
90Y4447
A36G
ServeRAID M5100 Series SSD Caching Enabler for Flex System
(MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0)
1
These features are described as follows:
RAID 6 Upgrade (90Y4410)
Adds support for RAID 6 and RAID 60. This is a Feature on Demand license.
Performance Upgrade (90Y4412)
Flex System x440 Compute Node (7917)
16