Dell 6 series - Driver Installation Procedures

Driver Installation 63
Driver Installation
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ Expandable RAID Controller (PERC) 6 and
Dell Cost-Effective RAID Controller (CERC) 6/i family of controllers require
software drivers to operate with the supported operating systems.
This chapter contains the procedures for installing the drivers for the
following operating systems.
•Citrix
®
XenServer Dell Edition
• Microsoft
®
Windows Server
®
2003
• Microsoft Windows
®
XP
• Microsoft Windows Vista
®
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (including Hyper-V™ virtualization)
•Novell
®
NetWare
®
6.5
•Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux™ Version 4 and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Version 5
• Solaris™10 (64-bit)
•SUSE
®
Linux Enterprise Server Version 9 (64-bit), Version 10 (64-bit),
and Version 11 (64-bit)
•VMware
®
ESX 3.5 and 3.5i
NOTE: For more information on Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX drivers, see the
Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX documentation respectively on the Dell Support
website at
support.dell.com .
NOTE: To check operating system compatibility, see the Dell Support website
at
support.dell.com .
The two methods for installing a driver discussed in this chapter are:
• During operating system installation — Use this method if you are
performing a new installation of the operating system and want to include
the drivers.
• Updating existing drivers — Use this method if the operating system and
PERC 6 and CERC 6/i family of controllers are already installed and you
want to update to the latest drivers.
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