Dell poweredge VRTX - Prerequisites for Upgrading Poweredge VRTX to Support Shared Storage

3 Prerequisites for upgrading PowerEdge VRTX to support
shared storage
The following requirements must be met before upgrading PowerEdge VRTX to support shared storage
expansion:
Hardware requirements
1. Ensure that you have met the following hardware requirements before upgrading PowerEdge
VRTX to support shared storage expansion:
a. Shared PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) 8 External cards – Supports up to two controllers
per chassis
Figure 1 Shared PERC External card
1. External cable connectors
2. Shared PERC External card
3. Heat sink
4. Battery cable
5. Battery
b. Dell PowerVault MD1200 or MD1220 direct attached storage enclosures – Supports up to two
enclosures per SAS domain.
c. Mini SAS 6 Gb (SAS 2.0) cables.
For more information about the supported cabling technologies, see Table 1.
Note: Note that any other cable topologies are not supported.
6 Upgrading PowerEdge VRTX to Support Shared Storage Expansion