Owners Manual

Element Requirement

NOTE: Dell PowerEdge R730 servers support only SR-IOV and does

not support Dell Express Flash PCIe SSDs.

• Dell PowerEdge R730XD

• Dell PowerEdge R820

• Dell PowerEdge R920

• Dell PowerEdge T620

Operating Systems

• VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 1 (64-bit), VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Update 1

• VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 2 (64-bit), VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2

• VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 3 (64-bit), VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 3

• VMware ESXi 6.0 (64-bit), VMware vCenter Server 6.0

NOTE: vSphere Enterprise Plus license required for SR-IOV support (for

Mellanox ConnectX-3 Adapters).

RAM and hard disk

drive space

• A datastore with 30GB of available disk space

• Minimum 64GB RAM (the VSA uses 20GB)

Cache Devices • Dell Express Flash PCIe SSDs (175GB, 350GB, 400GB, 800GB, or 1.6TB)

• Micron HHHL PCIe SSD cards (700GB or 1.4TB)

Network Adapters

• Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual Port 10 GbE SFP+ Adapter

• Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual Port 40 GbE QSFP+ Adapter

• Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual Port 10 GbE KR Mezzanine Adapter

Fibre Channel HBAs

• QLogic 2560, single-port 8GB, Optical Fibre Channel HBA

• QLogic 2562, dual-port 8GB, Optical Fibre Channel HBA

• QLogic 2660, single-port 16GB, Fibre Channel HBA, full height

• QLogic 2662, dual-port 16GB, Fibre Channel HBA, full height

• Emulex LPE 12000, single-port 8GB, Fibre Channel HBA

• Emulex LPE 12002, dual-port 8GB, Fibre Channel HBA

• Emulex LPe16000B, single-port 16GB, Fibre Channel HBA

• Emulex LPe16002B, dual-port 16GB, Fibre Channel HBA

Cache Network

Switches

Supported switches include:

• Dell Networking N4032F

• Dell Networking N4064F

• Dell Networking S4048-ON

• Dell Networking S4810

• Dell Networking S5000

• Dell Networking S6000

• Dell Networking Z9500

• Dell Networking MXL Blade

• Cisco Nexus 5548UP

SAN Software

• Dell Compellent Enterprise Manager 2014 R2