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Dell PowerEdge R730 SEDs
Hi,
I plan to acquire a R730 wih the following Har Drives
RAID 1
- (2) 300GB 15K RPM SAS 6Gbps 2.5in Hot-plug Hard Drive,3.5in HYB CARR
RAID 5
- (4) 600GB 15K RPM Self-Encrypting SAS 12Gbps 2.5in Hot-plug Hard Drive,3.5in HYB CARR,FIPS140-2,13G
Questions:
1. Will this be ok ? I just need the Data Disks (RAID 5) to be encrypted/
2. Can I have both 6 Gbps and 12 Gbps drives in the same unit?
3. Where can I get the vSphere 6 installer for R720 / R730 servers?
Thanks,
Paul
DELL-Chris H
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March 16th, 2015 10:00
ZianPaul,
The R730 does support 12 Gbps SAS, 12 Gb/s SAS, and 6 Gbps SATA. So the Raid 5 may be an issue being 6Gbs SAS.
With vSphere 6, since it was very recently released by Vmware, it will take us a short time to compile the drivers to the image. So at this point there is not a Dell Customized ESXi 6 installer.
Let me know if this helps.
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March 16th, 2015 17:00
Hi. Chris,
Just to clarify.
RAID 1 will be compposed of 2x 300 GB 6 Gbps SAS
while
RAID 5 will be composed of 4x 600 GB 12 Gbps SAS
Would this is be a problem?
Thanks,
Paul
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March 18th, 2015 05:00
The issue will be that while the server supports 6 Gbps drives, it doesn't support 6Gbps SAS, only the 6 Gbps SATA.