Here is a link to the compatibility matrix for the MD1000. ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_powervault/powervault-md1000_Service%20Manual_en-us.pdf if the adapter is supported in the server then it will work with the MD 1000. Now if you were to use the PercH810 which is supported in the R710 server then I would make sure that the MD1000 is up to date on the firmware just to make sure that there are no issues. Here is a link to the support Matrix for the different HBA’s that can be inserted into our servers. http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/campaigns/dell-raid-controllers?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&redirect=1&delphi:gr=true
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
The MD1000 is only officially supported with the PERC5E or PERC6E. Neither of those is officially supported with a PowerEdge R720.
So your only options will be non-supported solutions.
You can either get a PERC H810 and a non-Dell cable to hook the MD1000 (SFF-8470 connector) to the H810 (SFF-8088 connector), or you get a PERC6E and try it in the R720. Most likely the PERC6E will work just fine, but I personally have not tried it, so I cannot say 100% for sure.
This seems to be working. We are hosting an MD1000 on a perc6/e in a r720xd with no issues. OMSA 7.3 sees the card & the MD1000 and allows me to configure the MD1000 as normal.
I am thinking of doing something similar with a r730, but we have not yet purchased the new server. I trying to lean forward now but still use our MD1000's which are in great shape and only a couple of years old. This would work with our current hardware budget.
We tried similar option with issues of performance. Suprisingly, Perc5/E is performing much higher than Perc/6E on the same PE 720xd server. We tried different slots but Perc6/E got serious write performance issues on PE720xd, while Perc5/E works OK. Read performance is OK on both 5/E and 6/E. We are using MD1000 both SAS and SATA were tested. Since, it is not a supported card, we did not complain.
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Hello Edward E Meyer,
Here is a link to the compatibility matrix for the MD1000. ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_powervault/powervault-md1000_Service%20Manual_en-us.pdf if the adapter is supported in the server then it will work with the MD 1000. Now if you were to use the PercH810 which is supported in the R710 server then I would make sure that the MD1000 is up to date on the firmware just to make sure that there are no issues. Here is a link to the support Matrix for the different HBA’s that can be inserted into our servers. http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/campaigns/dell-raid-controllers?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&redirect=1&delphi:gr=true
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
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The MD1000 is only officially supported with the PERC5E or PERC6E. Neither of those is officially supported with a PowerEdge R720.
So your only options will be non-supported solutions.
You can either get a PERC H810 and a non-Dell cable to hook the MD1000 (SFF-8470 connector) to the H810 (SFF-8088 connector), or you get a PERC6E and try it in the R720. Most likely the PERC6E will work just fine, but I personally have not tried it, so I cannot say 100% for sure.
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This seems to be working. We are hosting an MD1000 on a perc6/e in a r720xd with no issues. OMSA 7.3 sees the card & the MD1000 and allows me to configure the MD1000 as normal.
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I am thinking of doing something similar with a r730, but we have not yet purchased the new server. I trying to lean forward now but still use our MD1000's which are in great shape and only a couple of years old. This would work with our current hardware budget.
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We tried similar option with issues of performance. Suprisingly, Perc5/E is performing much higher than Perc/6E on the same PE 720xd server. We tried different slots but Perc6/E got serious write performance issues on PE720xd, while Perc5/E works OK. Read performance is OK on both 5/E and 6/E. We are using MD1000 both SAS and SATA were tested. Since, it is not a supported card, we did not complain.