Dell EMC PowerVault ME484 Owner's manual

Type
Owner's manual

Dell EMC PowerVault ME484 is a high-performance and scalable storage array designed to meet the demanding needs of today's businesses. With its powerful hardware and advanced software features, the ME484 can help you improve application performance, consolidate your storage infrastructure, and protect your data. Here are some of the key capabilities of the ME484:

  • High performance: The ME484 delivers exceptional read and write speeds, making it ideal for demanding applications such as databases, virtual machines, and video editing.
  • Scalability: The ME484 can scale up to 1.9PB of raw capacity, making it easy to meet the growing storage needs of your business.

Dell EMC PowerVault ME484 is a high-performance and scalable storage array designed to meet the demanding needs of today's businesses. With its powerful hardware and advanced software features, the ME484 can help you improve application performance, consolidate your storage infrastructure, and protect your data. Here are some of the key capabilities of the ME484:

  • High performance: The ME484 delivers exceptional read and write speeds, making it ideal for demanding applications such as databases, virtual machines, and video editing.
  • Scalability: The ME484 can scale up to 1.9PB of raw capacity, making it easy to meet the growing storage needs of your business.
Dell EMC Storage PowerTools Server
Hardware Manager
Support Matrix
May 2020
Rev. A11
Notes, cautions, and warnings
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CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the
problem.
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1 Introduction................................................................................................................................. 4
2 Supported software and firmware................................................................................................. 5
Supported storage enclosure firmware ............................................................................................................................. 5
Supported operating systems .............................................................................................................................................5
Supported SAS host bus adapters...................................................................................................................................... 6
Contents
Contents 3
Introduction
This Support Matrix contains the latest compatibility and interoperability information for Server Hardware Manager (SHM) and the
supported Dell EMC enclosures.
The information in this document supersedes all other documentation.
For more information about a supported Dell EMC enclosure, see the storage enclosure documentation on Dell.com/support.
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4 Introduction
Supported software and firmware
This chapter describes the supported storage enclosure configurations, including operating systems, enclosure firmware, and SAS host
bus adapters (HBAs).
Topics:
Supported storage enclosure firmware
Supported operating systems
Supported SAS host bus adapters
Supported storage enclosure firmware
Dell EMC storage enclosures have two Enclosure Management Modules (EMMs). The two EMMs must have the same firmware version.
NOTE: The EMMs do not automatically synchronize firmware, and must be updated individually.
Table 1. Storage enclosure firmware
Enclosure model Minimum supported firmware version
Dell EMC PowerVault MD3060e 03.9D
Dell EMC Storage MD1400/MD1420 1.02
Dell EMC Storage MD1200/MD1220 1.05
Dell EMC Storage MD1280 2.14f
Dell EMC Storage ME484 as JBOD 5.2.0.26
Supported operating systems
If an operating system supports clustering, clustering is also supported on the Dell EMC storage enclosure.
NOTE: Clustering is not supported in ME484 JBOD storage enclosure configurations.
The following table shows the supported operating systems and the latest version of Server Hardware Manager (SHM) that each
operating system supports:
Table 2. Server Hardware Manager supported operating systems
Operating System Latest supported version of SHM
Windows
1
Windows Server 2019 Standard and Datacenter 2.3
Windows Server 2016 Standard and Datacenter 2.3
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard and Datacenter 2.3
Linux
2
CentOS 7 2.2
CentOS 6 2.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 2.3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 2.3
2
Supported software and firmware 5
Table 2. Server Hardware Manager supported operating systems(continued)
Operating System Latest supported version of SHM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 2.3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 2.3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 2.2
Ubuntu 16.04 2.2
Ubuntu 14.04 2.2
VMware ESXi
3
ESXi 6.7 2.2
ESXi 6.5 2.2
ESXi 6.0 2.2
1. Ensure that you apply the latest Windows updates. Server Core installations are also supported.
2. Ensure that you apply the latest Linux updates.
3. Only the Server Hardware Manager CLI (shmcli) command is supported on ESXi hosts.
Supported SAS host bus adapters
The following host bus adapters (HBAs) are supported with the Dell EMC storage enclosures:
Table 3. Supported HBA components
Vendor Model PowerEdge Server
Generation
Component Minimum version
required
Dell EMC 12 Gbps SAS HBA
Support for three
MD1400, MD1420, or
ME484 enclosures only
13th generation and 14th
generation
Firmware 03.09.00.00
Windows driver 2.50.75.01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1
driver
30.00.00.00
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7
driver
30.00.00.00
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
driver
4.00.01.00
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
driver
4.00.01.00
Dell EMC
PowerEdge RAID
Controller (PERC)
H310/H710/H810 12th generation Firmware H310 - 20.13.3-0001
H710 - 21.0.2-0001
H810 - 21.0.2-0001
Windows driver 6.803.21.00
Red Hat Enterprise Linux driver 6.902.01.00
Dell EMC
PowerEdge RAID
Controller (PERC)
H730/H830 13th generation Firmware 25.2.2-0004
Windows driver 6.602.07.00
Red Hat Enterprise Linux driver 6.901.04.00
LSI 9207-8e 12th generation and 13th
generation
Firmware 20.00.00.00
Windows driver 2.00.69.01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux driver 18.00.00.00-1
6 Supported software and firmware
Table 3. Supported HBA components (continued)
Vendor Model PowerEdge Server
Generation
Component Minimum version
required
Ubuntu driver 18.00.00.00-1
LSI 9265 11th generation and 12th
generation
Firmware 20.00.00.00
Windows driver 2.00.69.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux driver 18.00.00.00-1
Ubuntu driver 18.00.00.00-1
LSI 9300-8e 11th generation, 12th
generation, and 13th
generation
Firmware 8.21.00.00
Windows driver 2.51.01.00
Red Hat Enterprise Linux driver 10.00.00.00-1
Ubuntu driver 10.00.00.00-1
LSI 9286-8e 11th generation and 12th
generation
Firmware 23.34.0-0005
Windows driver 2.00.69.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux driver 18.00.00.00-1
Ubuntu driver 18.00.00.00-1
You can obtain the supported HBA drivers and firmware from the Dell EMC support website at Dell.com/support.
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Dell EMC PowerVault ME484 Owner's manual

Type
Owner's manual

Dell EMC PowerVault ME484 is a high-performance and scalable storage array designed to meet the demanding needs of today's businesses. With its powerful hardware and advanced software features, the ME484 can help you improve application performance, consolidate your storage infrastructure, and protect your data. Here are some of the key capabilities of the ME484:

  • High performance: The ME484 delivers exceptional read and write speeds, making it ideal for demanding applications such as databases, virtual machines, and video editing.
  • Scalability: The ME484 can scale up to 1.9PB of raw capacity, making it easy to meet the growing storage needs of your business.

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