Owners Manual

Element Requirement

• Dell PowerEdge R730XD

• Dell PowerEdge R820

• Dell PowerEdge R920

• Dell PowerEdge T620

Operating Systems

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4 (64-bit)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5 (64-bit)

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP3 (64-bit)

• Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 6.5 (64–bit)

• Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL ) 6.5 (64–bit)

For Oracle Linux 6.4 (64-bit), use the RHEL 6.4 Fluid Cache RPM package.

NOTE: The Mellanox ConnectX-3 Driver, version 2.0.2.6.8 is not installed

by default on OEL 6.4 systems. As a workaround, edit the Linux

distribution (distro) file of RHEL6.4, and change the entry “RHEL6.4” to

“OEL6.4”.

RAM and hard disk

drive space

• 10GB of available disk space

• Minimum 32GB RAM, 64GB recommended

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