Dell PowerEdge R660 PowerEdge RAID Controller S160 Users Guide - Page 9
Supported operating systems, Supported PowerEdge servers, Supported physical disks
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Table 5. Virtual disk specifications for PERC S160 with NVMe configuration (continued) Specification PERC S160 Minimum number of physical disks in a volume 1 Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 0 2 Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 1 2 Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 5 3 Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 10 4 Supported operating systems The S160 controller supports the following operating systems: NOTE: It is highly recommended to see the Dell Enterprise operating systems support section to view the details of the operating systems supported by specific servers. ● Microsoft ○ Windows Server 2022 ○ Windows Server 2019 ● See Linux RAID for capabilities when using the following Linux operating systems: ○ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 and later versions ○ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 15 SP1 and later versions NOTE: The S160 supports Linux only for pre-booting the configuration utility capability for enabling the Linux MDRAID. For more information, see Linux RAID. NOTE: Kickstart installs are supported only on RHEL 8.2+. NOTE: For the latest list of supported operating systems and driver installation instructions, see the system documentation at https://www.dell.com/operatingsystemmanuals. For specific operating system service pack requirements, see the Drivers and Downloads section at www.dell.com/support/drivers. Supported PowerEdge servers The following PowerEdge servers support the S160 controller: ● PowerEdge R6615 ● PowerEdge R7615 ● PowerEdge R6625 ● PowerEdge R7625 ● PowerEdge R660 ● PowerEdge R760 ● PowerEdge MX760C ● PowerEdge C6620 Supported physical disks The PERC S160 controller supports the following physical disk types: ● SATA hard disk drives (HDDs) ● SATA solid state drives (SSDs), with the exception of the M.2 SATA form factor, which is not supported. Mixing drives of different speeds (rpm) and bandwidths (Gbps) while maintaining the same drive type (SATA) and technology (HDD or SSD) is supported. ● NVMe PCIe SSDs Only Dell-compliant NVMe PCIe SSDs are supported. Some non-Dell-certified NVMe drives can be used, although they are unsupported, including Micron device IDs 0x5190 and 0x5192, Western digital device ID 0x0023, Samsung device ID 0XA808, Overview 9