Dell PowerEdge R415 - Persistent Storage; Internal SD Module (Unmanaged Internal Persistent Storage)

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PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide
Factory Configuration
Non-Mixed drives
all SATA, all SAS, or
all SSD; all 2.5” or all
3.5”
Cabled/
Hot Plug
Config Type
Configs
Description
Min HDD
Max HDD
Hot Plug
Mix SAS and
SATA
RAID
C20
ASSR1R1-X
Add-in SAS/SATA/RAID card, RAID 1 +
RAID 1 (SAS 6/iR or PERC H200 or PERC
H700)
2 x SAS +
2 x SATA
2 x SAS +
2 x SATA
Additional restrictions for RAID configurations are as follows:
 SSD support requires H200 or H700. SAS 6i/R and PERC S300 do not support SSD.
 Hard drives must be all 2.5‖ or 3.5‖.
PERC S300 does not support the following virtualization solutions:
 Microsoft
®
Hyper-V
™
server 2008 x64 (download version)
 Microsoft
®
Windows Server
®
2008 x64 (Hyper-V
™
role enabled)
 Microsoft
®
Windows Server
®
2008 SP2 x64 (Hyper-V
™
role enabled)
 Microsoft
®
Windows Server
®
2008 R2 (Microsoft
®
Windows
®
7 includes SP2 bits) x64 (Hyper-V
™
role
enabled)
PERC S300 does not support Linux
®
operating systems or VMware
®
virtualization software.
11.3 Persistent Storage
The PowerEdge R415 offers two types of persistent storage: unmanaged and managed. The following options
are available for persistent storage:
 Unmanaged internal SD module
 Managed iDRAC6 Express or Enterprise (optional)
11.4 Internal SD Module (Unmanaged Internal Persistent Storage)
The internal SD module Unmanaged Internal Persistent Storage (UIPS) consists of two ports:
 One port on the control panel board for the USB key
 One port on the internal SD module for the SD card
The UIPS is a feature which enables the following solutions:
 USB license keys used for software application enablement
 User custom-boot OS and pre-boot OS
o Loaded into memory and then run (used for ease of deployment, as well as in diskless
environments, such as HPCC)
o User custom logs/scratch pad (user-defined information, removable and portable after system
is down)