Users Guide

Feature Dell HBA (12 Gbps SAS HBA and HBA330 cards)
Non-Volatile cache None
Cache policy No
Drives Types 3 Gbps SATA, 6 Gbps SATA/SAS, and 12 Gbps SAS
PCIe Support Generation 3
Non-RAID or pass through mode Yes
SAS and SATA technology Yes
NOTE: SATA is not supported on the Dell HBA330 MMZ and 12 Gbps SAS HBA controller cards.
Boot support Yes
Queue depth 9548
Supported operating systems
The Dell HBA controller supports the following operating systems:
• Microsoft
– Windows Server 2012 R2
– Windows Server 2016
• VMware
– ESXi 6.5 update 1
– ESXi 6.7
NOTE
: The 12 GBPS SAS HBA driver for VMware ESXi is bundled with the VMware ISO image available from Dell. For more
information, see Dell.com/virtualizationsolutions.
• Linux
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5
– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 12.3
• Ubuntu
– Ubuntu 16.04.4
– Ubuntu 18.04
Related documentation
NOTE
:
• For all storage controllers and PCIe SSD documents, go to Dell.com/storagecontrollermanuals.
• For all Dell OpenManage documents, go to Dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
• For all operating system documents, go to Dell.com/operatingsystemmanuals.
• For all PowerEdge documentation, go to Dell.com/poweredgemanuals.
• For all PowerVault documentation, go to Dell.com/powervaultmanuals.
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