SYSTEM CONFIGURATION GUIDE
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NEC Express5800/R120f-2M
NEC Corporation
Revision 6.0
– April 17, 2015
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4.2
Required Components for RAID Configuration
4.2.1
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.
4.2.2
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)
Optional Drive Cage
(Required when
more than 8 drives)
2.5-inch Drive Cage
8 x 2.5-inch hot plug drive bays
Including six sets of 1 x Mini SAS HD to 1 x Mini SAS HD
cable, SAS expander card
N8154-69
NOTE:
For Supported HDD/SSD, refer to
4.3.2
for Windows Server 2008/2008R2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6(x86_64) with KVM feature.
Refet to
4.3.3
for Windows Server
2012/2012R2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6(x86_64) without KVM feature.
Refer to
4.3.4
for VMware.
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
and SATA SSDs can be mixed in each drive cage.
