Reference Guide

System Controller
WAM2 Plus
DR6000
WAM2 Plus
Supported Virtual Environments for DR2000v
This section lists the supported virtual environments for the Dell DR2000v.
NOTE: At least one physical DR Series system hardware appliance is required to act as the License
Server for DR2000v. To register the DR2000v successfully, version 3.1 or later of the DR Series
software is required to be loaded on the DR Series system hardware appliance.
Available capacities and OS support
Platform 1TB 2TB 4TB 12TiB
ESXi 5.0 Yes Yes N/A N/A
ESXi 5.1 Yes Yes N/A N/A
ESXi 5.5* Yes Yes Yes Yes**
Hyper-V 2008 R2 Yes Yes N/A N/A
Hyper-V 2012 R2 Yes Yes Yes N/A
Hyper-V 2012 Yes Yes Yes N/A
*The ESXi 5.5 version is VM hardware 10 based. This means you must use the Web client, not the vSphere
client.
**The 12TiB capacity is supported for version 3.2.0.2 of the DR Series software release.
NOTE: Capacity for the DR Series system is technically measured in TiB, where 4TiB is equal to
4.398 TB. In the case of the 12 TiB drive, it is equal to 13.194 TB of storage capacity.
Resource requirements
The following table lists the minimum resource requirements for DR2000v.
Platform Disk
Capacity
Virtual Network Interface Card (At
least e1000)
No. of CPUs RAM
ESXi 5.0, 5.1 1TB, 2TB 2x1Gig 4 8GB
ESXi 5.5 1TB, 2TB,
4TB
2x1Gig 4 8GB
12 TiB 2x1Gig 4 12GB
Hyper-V 2008
R2
1TB, 2TB 2x1Gig 4 8GB
Hyper-V 2012
R2/2012
1TB, 2TB,
4TB
2x1Gig 4 8GB
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