Compatibility Matrix

Chapter 1: .................................................................................................................................... 4
Minimum version requirement for baselines..................................................................................................................4
Current baseline............................................................................................................................................................. 4
Legacy baselines............................................................................................................................................................ 4
Baseline threshold guidelines............................................................................................................................................ 6
Storage subsystem baseline types.................................................................................................................................. 6
Baseline v9 Support for additional Operating systems....................................................................................6
Baseline v8 Support for additional Operating systems.................................................................................... 7
Baseline v7 Support for PowerEdge M640........................................................................................................ 8
Baseline v6current baseline Support for Self-Encrypting Drives and bug fixes...................................... 10
Baseline v5Shared Storage Expansion through Shared PERC 8 external controllers.............................11
Baseline v4Fault tolerant support for Linux operating systems and bug fixes.........................................12
Updating firmware............................................................................................................................................................. 12
Updating server modules..................................................................................................................................................13
Updating PowerEdge VRTX enclosure components................................................................................................. 13
Documentation resources................................................................................................................................................ 14
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