SYSTEM CONFIGRATION GUIDE –
NEC Express5800/T110i
NEC Corporation
Revision 7.0
– June 2018
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4.1.3
Non-hot plug 3.5-inch Drive
Operating System
Supported RAID configuration
Supported
HDD/SSD
RAID and Cache
Section
VMware ESXi 6.0
Non-RAID (Embedded SATA)
4.2.21
4.3.7
RAID 0/1/10 No Cache
4.2.23
RAID 0/1/10 1GB Cache
4.2.25
RAID 5/6/50/60 1GB Cache
4.2.27
RAID 5/6/50/60 2GB Cache
4.2.28
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016
Non-RAID (Embedded SATA)
4.2.21
4.3.7
RAID 0/1 (Embedded SATA RAID)
4.2.22
4.3.8
RAID 0/1/10 No Cache
4.2.24
RAID 0/1/10 2GB Cache
4.2.26
RAID 5/6/50/60 2GB Cache
4.2.29
RAID 5/6/50/60 4GB Cache
4.2.30
VMware ESXi 6.5
Non-RAID (Embedded SATA)
4.2.21
4.3.7
RAID 0/1/10 No Cache
4.2.24
4.3.8
RAID 0/1/10 2GB Cache
4.2.26
RAID 5/6/50/60 2GB Cache
4.2.29
RAID 5/6/50/60 4GB Cache
4.2.30
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Non-RAID (Embedded SATA)
4.2.21
4.3.7
RAID 0/1/10 No Cache
4.2.23
4.3.8
RAID 0/1/10 1GB Cache
4.2.25
RAID 5/6/50/60 1GB Cache
4.2.27
RAID 5/6/50/60 2GB Cache
4.2.28
NOTE:
All hard drives within a RAID array should be of the same capacity and rotation speed.
4.1.4
M.2 SATA SSD
The M.2 SATA SSD can be used for boot drive only. See the table below for the system configuration of M.2 SATA SSD and support
for the mixed installation of M.2 SATA SSDs and internal hard drives.
Operating System
M.2 SATA SSD configuration
Support for the mixed
installation of M.2 SATA
SSD and internal hard
drives.
RAID and Cache
Section
VMware ESXi 6.5
RAID 0/1/10 No Cache
4.2.33
Not supported
RAID 0/1/10 1GB Cache
4.2.34
RAID 0/1/10 2GB Cache
4.2.35
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016
RAID 0/1 (Embedded SATA RAID)
4.2.31
Supported: Optional RAID
controller is required to install
internal hard drives.
RAID 0/1/10 No Cache
4.2.33
Not supported
RAID 0/1/10 1GB Cache
4.2.34
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