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Dell PowerEdge R630 Owners Manual - Page 3
....04.4
*Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 supports 4k-sector devices as data disks. 4K-sector boot disks are supported in UEFI mode only
**SUSE Linux Enterprise fully supports 4 KB/sector drives in all conditions and architectures with one exception. The 4KB/sector hard disk drives are not supported as a boot drive on x86_64 systems booting with a legacy BIOS.
3. Why do 512 emulation HDD...
Dell PowerEdge R630 Owners Manual - Page 5
...Desktop HDD in 2011, selective Cloud Enterprise HDD in 2013 and will be on mainstream Enterprise HDD in 2014. Dell is leading this transition by adopting these drives in PowerEdge , Power...software that are "4k aware". There is also 3rd party alignment software that reduces the data misalignment on 512e HDD in conjunction with legacy OS & software device driver...newer version of BIOS/OS/Software. This...
Supported Operating Systems on Dell PowerEdge Servers - Page 3
... managing the 4K transition...9 5.1 Managing 4K sectors in the Windows environment 9 5.2 Enterprise Windows support for 4K sector media ...9 5.3 Managing 4K sectors in the Linux environment ...10 5.4 VMware support ...10 5.5 Dealing with unaligned conditions...11 5.6 512e/4Kn application support ...11 6 Drive labels...11 7 Conclusion...12 8 Additional resources ...12
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512e and 4Kn Disk Formats
Supported Operating Systems on Dell PowerEdge Servers - Page 6
... the operating system to align partitions on a 4Kn drive boundary.
For operating system versions that are not 4K-sector aware, use third-party software or utilities to create hard drive partitions. To ensure the software or utilities you are using are 4K-sector aware, check with your Dell team.
512-byte sector emulation
The introduction of...
Supported Operating Systems on Dell PowerEdge Servers - Page 9
..."smallest"unit"of"write"that"the"storage"can"accept."
• Physical"sector:"The"unit"for"which"read"and"write"operations"to"the"device"are"completed"in"a" single"operation."This"is"the"unit"of"atomic"write.
Table 3 Windows support
Drive formats
Reported logical sector size
Reported physical sector size
Windows version with support
512-byte Native, 512n
512 bytes...
Supported Operating Systems on Dell PowerEdge Servers - Page 10
...® Enterprise Linux® 6 supports 4K-sector devices as data disks. 4K-sector boot disks are supported in UEFI mode only. **SUSE® Linux® Enterprise fully supports 4KB/sector drives in all conditions and architectures with one exception. The 4KB/sector hard disk drives are not supported as a boot drive on x86_64 systems booting with a legacy BIOS.
Changes have been made...
Supported Operating Systems on Dell PowerEdge Servers - Page 11
... example, you have a 512n disk hosting one DB copy and a 512e disk hosting another DB copy. See the following article for more details: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/04/24/exchange-2010database-availability-groups-and-disk-sector-sizes.aspx **VMware may support 4Kn drives in 2014. VMware currently supports 512e formats.
Drive labels
The AF Logo Program...
Supported Operating Systems on Dell PowerEdge Servers - Page 12
...-term potential benefits for Dell and our customers.
8 Additional resources
http://www.seagate.com/tech-insights/advanced-format-4k-sector-hard-drives-master-ti/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh848035(v=vs.85).aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/04/24/exchange-2010-database-availability-groupsand-disk-sector-sizes.aspx...