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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
3
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...
Dell PowerEdge R730 and R730xd Owners Manual - Page 1
... as microprocessors, remote access controllers, and storage controllers) is available by component separately. The following NV components are present in the PowerEdge R730 and R730XD servers.
Item
Non-Volatile Quantity Reference
Size
or Volatile
Designator
Planar
PCH Internal CMOS RAM Non-Volatile
1
U_PCH
256 Bytes
BIOS Password
Non-Volatile
1
U_PCH
16 bytes
BIOS SPI Flash
Non...
Dell PowerEdge R730 and R730xd Owners Manual - Page 4
... (i.e. IDRAC MAC Address, iDRAC boot variables), lifecycle log cache, virtual planar FRU and EPPID, rac log, system event log, JobStore, iDRAC Secure boot code,
Operational iDRAC FW, Lifecycle Controller (LC) USC partition, LC service diags, LC OS drivers, USC firmware
Operational parameters
Operational parameters
Not utilized
System OS RAM
General purpose USB key drive
Processor cache + registers...
Dell PowerEdge R730 and R730xd Owners Manual - Page 6
...
SBR
Flash
Flash
PCIe SSD Extension Card
Switch Configuration EEPROM
SPI Flash EEPROM
IDSDM
SPI Flash
SPI Flash
Dell - Internal Use - Confidential
No
FRU
No
FW config data
No
Firmware
No
FRU
No
FRU
No
Configuration data
No
Card manufacturing
information
No
Holds default controller
properties/settings
No
Memory configuration data
No
Bootloader
No
Card firmware
No...
Dell PowerEdge R730 and R730xd Owners Manual - Page 7
...No
Main Control Panel - R730
SPI Flash
SPI Flash
No
TPM
Trusted Platform
EEPROM
Yes
Module (TPM)
iDRAC Quick Sync
MCU MSP430
Flash
No
controller Firmware
For field maintenance. Have License, Service Tag and system information.
For field maintenance. Have License, Service Tag and system information.
Storage of encryption keys
iDRAC Quick Sync Communicate Protocol
Dell - Internal Use...
Dell PowerEdge R730 and R730xd Owners Manual - Page 8
... this memory How is the memory cleared?
memory?
write protected?
Planar
PCH Internal
BIOS
CMOS RAM
N/A - BIOS only control
1) Set NVRAM_CLR jumper to clear BIOS configuration settings at boot and reboot system; 2) AC power off system, remove coin cell battery for 30 seconds, replace battery and power back on; 3) restore default configuration in F2 system setup menu.
BIOS Password Keyboard...
Dell PowerEdge R730 and R730xd Owners Manual - Page 10
... data to this device in case of a power failure
Not WP. Not visible to Host Processor
Flash can be cleared by powering up the card and allowing the controller to flush the contents to VDs. If the VDs are no longer available, cache can be cleared by going into controller bios and selecting Discard Preserved Cache.
Dell - Internal Use - Confidential
Dell PowerEdge R730 and R730xd Owners Manual - Page 11
... customer
Flash
Pre-programmed before assembly. Can be updated using Dell/LSI tools
Not WP. Not visible to Host Processor
Cannot be cleared with existing tools available to the customer
PCIe SSD Extension Card
Switch Configuration EEPROM
The EEPROM image is preloaded at factory before assembly. Once assembled on the card, data can be entered via PLX Device...
4K Sector HDD FAQ - 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...
4K Sector HDD FAQ - 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...
Glossary - Page 5
... license compliance. It automates the management of inventory, software assets, versions, upgrades, and computers through a web-based dashboard.
asset tag
An individual code assigned to a system, usually by an administrator, for security or tracking purposes.
Assigned Disks
In Dell Compellent Storage Center, physical storage media assigned to a disk folder in order to become managed and used...
Glossary - Page 7
... AIM Console is hosted by the Dell AIM Controller.
In Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays, the physical processor and interface component. A control module contains the Dell EqualLogic PS Series firmware in flash memory and provides temporary power continuity for data sorted in cache memory. It has multiple network interfaces and an optional serial port. An array can contain two hot-swappable, dual...
Glossary - Page 13
... a remote Dell Compellent Storage Center and maintain updates between the local and remote volumes until the mirror is manually broken.
mirroring
A type of data redundancy in which a set of physical drives stores data and one or more sets of additional drives stores duplicate copies of the data. Mirroring functionality is provided by software. See striping, RAID.
NAS
See Network-Attached...
Glossary - Page 15
...fail.
Redundant array of independent disks. A method of providing data redundancy. Some common implementations of RAID including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, and RAID 50. See mirroring, striping.
A Dell Compellent Storage Center solution feature in which a replay is replicated to a remote Dell Compellent Storage Center. The local and remote Dell Compellent Storage Centers are active-active...
Glossary - Page 17
...See Simple Network Management Protocol.
SNMP Trap Collector
In the context of Dell AIM, the Controller Services virtual IP address that managed switches and other devices use to send SNMP traps to the active Controller.
Software Development Kit (SDK)
A set of development tools used to create applications for a specific software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system...