Experience with DELL HWRAID ?

Marco Barbieri Lv1Posted 06 Nov 2018 19:48

Hi everybody, DELL has an option for his server (example for R540) called "HWRAID 2 x SSD M.2 da 120 GB, 240 GB"
anybody has experience installing O.S. on this raid ? is it supported?

thanks
MArco

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i suppose it will work, just found and reading latest announcement Sangfor-Dell partnership

https://www.sangfor.com/source/news-product-news/1026.html
i found it near the bottom, under "Expand and Optimize Performance & Capacity"

looking at Dell description RAID boot option card seems to be the same for R640 and R740, but i have no way to know the exact card model.

do you agree?

many thanks
MArco
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CTI SC Lv2Posted 08 Nov 2018 17:39
  
Hi! Marco.

Can you share the server's model and specification details ?

Thank you.
Marco Barbieri Lv1Posted 13 Nov 2018 17:35
  
Dell R740 has it as option.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/povw/poweredge-r740

the option is called:
Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem:
HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 120GB, 240GB


thanks
MArco
CTI Jimy Lv2Posted 14 Nov 2018 10:41
  
Greetings,

Kindly advise on the RAID card model of the server.

Thank you.
Marco Barbieri Lv1Posted 15 Nov 2018 07:24
  
i suppose it will work, just found and reading latest announcement Sangfor-Dell partnership

https://www.sangfor.com/source/news-product-news/1026.html
i found it near the bottom, under "Expand and Optimize Performance & Capacity"

looking at Dell description RAID boot option card seems to be the same for R640 and R740, but i have no way to know the exact card model.

do you agree?

many thanks
MArco
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