Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 - Validated Components; Hardware Components

Validated components
Validated components refer to the hardware components, and the software and rmware versions that have been validated. The versions
that are listed in the following section are the recommended minimum for this release to match all of the deployment steps listed in this
guide.
Topics:
• Hardware components
• Software and rmware
• Using the VMware Compatibility Guide
• Software
• Firmware and drivers
Hardware components
The following hardware components were used in the validation of this solution.
NOTE
: Cloud Foundation automatically congures vSAN disk groups, which requires following a few rules for drive population:
• Identical drive congurations in each target host
• There must be one size for all cache drives, as well as one size for all capacity drives
• The number of capacity drives in a host is cleanly divisible by the number of cache drives (that is, the result is a whole number)
Table 1. Hardware components
Manufacturer Model Description Specications
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 Chassis
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX740c Compute sled 2x Xeon Gold processor, 256 GB
RAM, Cache drives
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5016s Storage sled 12 Gbps SAS, Capacity drives
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5000s SAS Fabric switch IOM 12 Gbps SAS
Dell EMC Networking MX9116n Network fabric switching engine IOM
Dell EMC Networking MX7116n Network fabric expander IOM
Dell EMC Networking MX5108n Network switch IOM
Dell EMC HBA330 MX Disk controller—internal drives
Dell EMC HBA330 MMZ Disk controller—PowerEdge
MX5016s drives
Dell EMC BOSS MX Boot/OS device BOSS Card MX, 2x 256 GB M.2,
RAID-1 vDisk
Toshiba PX05SMB vSAN cache drive 800 GB, 12 Gbps SAS SSD, 2.5"
Samsung PM1635a vSAN capacity drive 1.6 TB, 12 Gbps SAS SSD, 2.5"
QLogic QL41232HMKR Network interface card Slot Mezz 1A, 2 ports x 25 GbE
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