Hi,

Can you private message me your service tag so we can get some additional information?

 

You can set the nvme drives to raid by changing the setting in the bios for the sata mode to be RAID. Page 50 http://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/poweredge-t640_owners-manual_en-us.pdf

Then you can configure RAID on the S140 config. http://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/poweredge-rc-s140_users-guide_en-us.pdf

 

You can do RAID 5 but it is a software raid controller without cache and raid 5 may perform slower than a RAID 10. You can install vmware to a different sata virtual disk.

Hi,

Thank you for your helpful information and the document with the many helpful tips regarding the NVMe settings.

Since I have never used NVMe before and I notice that you are more experienced in it, I have a general question about what you see in the field.

Is it unusual to use NVMe in Raid? I can't leave the customer data on a single disk.
Is the speed loss (because I would set up a R5 because the price per disc is too high for an R10) really so significantly higher than if I used the NVMe disc individually? The main thing here for me would be that hopefully we would still be faster than with SSDs and pre-connected SATA/SAS interfaces.

Unfortunately I don't have a service tag yet, because it's still the sizing stage. But thank you for the support offer.

Best regards

 

In our company we have more than 2000 Dell Servers and we want to make the leap to NVME disks. We want to mount Dell R440 servers with NVME disks in Raid 10 to virtualize with KVM, but we see that the S140 controller is software. Is there any other alternative to make Raid 10 by Hardware with NVME disks? If you need the service tags of our machines, I can pass it to you privately.