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Blackberry944
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January 17th, 2019 12:00
R720xd Hard Disk Support question
So I just purchased a used PowerEdge R720xd, and before I did I read up quite a bit on the server.
After reading the Reference Guide I noted that it only supports 4TB 3.5 drives and up to 800GB 2.5 SSDs.
Noting that this was the technology at the time ( have 4 racks with 16 r720s in production right now), I am curious if this was the specs because that is what dell sold at the time, or is this what is supported, period. Also when you 'google' the specs, Google straight up tells you that it will not support more than 48TB of storage. Clearly 12 4TB drives....
So since I have 4 6TB drives from my old server, and the one that I purchase comes with 6 2TB drives; I just want to make sure that:
1. it will support the 6TB drives (12TB Dell SAS drives????)
2. If the 48TB max is relevant today or just back in 2014?
2b. Should I just purchase hardware that was available at the time and not anything newer (e.g 12 TB drives, 2TB SSDs [dell certified of-course])
thanks for any information. And as a side question, it should be no problem putting ESXi 6.5 on this right?
Dell-DylanJ
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Posted January 22nd, 2019 10:00
Hello,
The R720xd will support ESXi 6.5. I would recommend using the latest Dell customized image, so that you have the simplest experience. You can grab it here: https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER05330276M/1/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.5.0.update02-10719125.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A07.iso
As for the drives, I see some 6TB and 8TB SAS drives we supported, so the capacity shouldn't be a problem. If you end up using non-Dell drives though, there may be issues. Speaking generally, the PERC will simply mark the drives as non-Dell and they usually work fine. However, I have seen some instances where the drives and the PERC did not work together.
Blackberry944
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Posted January 22nd, 2019 10:00
I didn't think this was an elusive question....
So no one has tried to put in a larger than 4TB drive in a 12th gen server? Am I in the wrong area?
Blackberry944
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Posted January 17th, 2019 12:00
I neglected to mention that this is a home lab, not a production server. Worth noting (hence why it is 'used')