Intel AXXRMS2AF080 Hardware User Guide - Page 13

Protocol Support Each port on the SAS controllers supports SAS devices, SATA II devices, or both using SSP, SMP, STP, and SATA II as follows: • Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP) to enable communication with other SAS devices. • SATA II Protocol to enable communication with other SATA II devices. • Serial Management Protocol (SMP) to share topology management information with expanders. • Serial Tunneling Protocol (STP) support for SATA II through expander interfaces.. Operating System Support • Windows Server 2008* R2, Windows 7*, Windows Server 2003*, Windows Vista* • Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 5.0 • SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11 • VMWare* ESX 4.0 • Solaris* 10 The operating systems supported may not be supported by your server board. See the Tested operating system list for your server board at http://www.intel.com/support/go/motherboards/server/index.htm. To make sure the RAID module supports your operating system, see also the Tested Hardware and Operating System List for the Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMS2AF040 and RMS2AF080. Usability • Small, thin cabling with up to 6.0 Gb/s serial, point-to-point data transfer rates. • Support for non-disk devices and mixed capacity drives. • Support for intelligent XOR RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50. • Dedicated or global hot spare with auto rebuild if an array drive fails. • User-defined strip size per drive: 8, 16, 32, or 64 KB. • Advanced array configuration and management utilities provide: - Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) adds space to existing drive or new drive. See Appendix A: Drive Roaming and Drive Migration Install for limitations on OCE and RAID migration. - Online RAID level migration (upgrade of RAID mode may require OCE) - Drive migration - Drive roaming Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMS2AF040 and RMS2AF080 Hardware User's Guide 3