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Dell PowerEdge R930 System Owners Manual - Page 3
... (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,
IDRAC SDRAM
IDRAC SDRAM
No
Video memory written by IDRAC memory interface.
BMC EMMC
eMMC NAND Flash
No
Operational iDRAC FW, Lifecycle Controller USC partition, LC service diag., LC OS drivers, USC firmware
CPU Vcore and...
Dell PowerEdge R930 System Owners Manual - Page 4
...)
System Memory
RAM
Yes
FRU Firmware that configures PEX switch ports and feature support
Firmware Expander Logging Storage during run time FRU
FRU Operational parameters
System OS RAM
Item
How is data input to this memory? How is this memory write protected?
Planer
PBG Internal CMOS NVRAM BIOS
N/A - BIOS only control
BIOS SPI Flash
SPI interface via iDRAC
Software write protected...
Dell PowerEdge R930 System Owners Manual - Page 5
... to memory. It can also be loaded by Dell Update Package from LC or OS (Windows and Linux)
Protected by the embedded microcontroller. Special keys are used by special vendor provided utilities to unlock the ROM with various CRC checks during load.
24x2.5" SAS Backplane
SEP internal flash
I2C interface via iDRAC
Program write protect bit
16+8x2.5" PCIe...
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...
512e and 4Kn Disk Formats - 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
512e and 4Kn Disk Formats - 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...
512e and 4Kn Disk Formats - 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...
512e and 4Kn Disk Formats - 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...
512e and 4Kn Disk Formats - 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...
512e and 4Kn Disk Formats - 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 R930 server with Microsoft SQL server 2014 in-memory OLTP - Page 1
... to
4.23X the database transactions per minute*
Y E CEFCe& I
Upgradeable drive options and 24 internal drive bays
With the newest processors, up to 6TB memory, and expanded storage options, the Dell PowerEdge R930 has the power to take full advantage of the latest in-memory features of SQL Server 2014.
Legacy server
Dell PowerEdge R930
versus a legacy server running Microsoft SQL Server 2008...