Eight PowerEdge R650 servers running ESXi were used as hosts in the vSAN cluster and the services host to validate the example in this guide. The servers were each configured per the table below. Other supported hardware may be used.
Quantity per host | Item | Firmware version |
2 | Intel Xeon Gold 6330 CPU @ 2.00 GHz, 28 cores | |
8 | 16 GB DDR4 DIMMs (128 GB total) | |
1 | 1788.5 GB SATA SSD (HBA 355i Fnt controller) | |
1 | 372.61 GB SAS SSD (HBA 355i Fnt controller) | |
2 | 447.13 GB SATA SSD (BOSS-S2 controller) | |
1 | Dell HBA355i Fnt Storage Controller | 15.15.15.0 |
1 | Boot Optimized Storage Solution (BOSS-S2) Controller | 2.5.13.4008 |
1 | Broadcom Adv. Dual 25 Gb Ethernet | 21.85.21.91 |
- | BIOS | 1.3.8 |
- | CPLD | 1.0.5 |
- | iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller | 5.00.10.20 |
- | Backplane | 3.57 |