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Instructions Note: This vSAN firmware catalog is meant to be used only for specific server models. See "Server Models supported" section for specifics. This catalog is unsupported for VMware ESXi use cases or any other vSAN Ready Nodes that Dell offer. For VMware ESXi use cases other than vSAN, see knowledge base article 126599, Firmware catalog for Dell customized VMware ESXi images . Seek additional guidance from your aligned Dell account team if you need further details. Dell releases new and refreshed catalogs for VMware vSAN on a quarterly basis. Up to N-1 of the Dell customized VMware ESXi ISO image has refreshed vSAN catalogs on selected server models. What is a vSAN firmware catalog? A firmware catalog is an aggregation of all firmware bundles that are supported on multiple generations of Dell servers. A vSAN firmware catalog is designed to support Dell’s vSAN Ready Nodes based on PowerEdge R740xd, R740, R640, R840, R750, R650, R7515, R6515, MX750c, R660, R760, R6616, R7615, R7625, and MX760c servers. Server Models supported. Server Models supported for vSAN firmware catalog. Supported Server Models Dell vSAN Ready Nodes PowerEdge vSAN Ready Nodes Dell EMC vSAN Ready Node R640 PowerEdge R640 Dell EMC vSAN Ready Node R740 PowerEdge R740 Dell EMC vSAN Ready Node R740xd PowerEdge R740xd Dell EMC vSAN Ready Node R840 PowerEdge R840 Dell EMC vSAN Ready Node R650 PowerEdge R650 Dell EMC vSAN Ready Node R750 PowerEdge R650XS Dell EMC vSAN Ready Node MX750c PowerEdge R750 Dell EMC vSAN Ready Node R6515 PowerEdge R750XA Dell EMC vSAN Ready Node R7515 PowerEdge R750XS Dell EMC vSAN Ready Node R660 PowerEdge XR4510c Dell EMC vSAN Ready Node R760 PowerEdge XR4520c Dell vSAN Ready Node MX760c PowerEdge C6520 Dell vSAN Ready Node R6615 PowerEdge R350 Dell vSAN Ready Node R7615 PowerEdge R450 Dell vSAN Ready Node R7625 PowerEdge R6515 PowerEdge R7515 PowerEdge R6525 PowerEdge R7525 PowerEdge MX750c PowerEdge R660 PowerEdge R760 PowerEdge R760XA PowerEdge XR5610 PowerEdge XR7620 PowerEdge C6620 PowerEdge R860 PowerEdge MX760c PowerEdge R6625 PowerEdge R6615 PowerEdge R7615 PowerEdge R7625 PowerEdge XR11 PowerEdge XR12 Firmware catalogs for Dell’s VMware vSAN Ready Nodes The intent of this vSAN firmware catalog is to provide supported and certified firmware versions for selected vSAN Ready Nodes. The firmware catalog, when used along with Dell’s customized VMware ESXi ISO images, provides a "wanted state" for customers. The vSAN firmware catalog has the specific firmware versions for all supported vSAN components

When used with the corresponding Dell customized ESXi image. Together these two products provide a path to the wanted vSAN cluster state. See VMware vSphere Life-Cycle Manager (vLCM) and Dell integration whitepaper section "Configuring vSphere Wanted State for Dell PowerEdge VMware cluster using vLCM" to setup a wanted state. Though the example mentions the ESXi catalog, you may replace that with the vSAN catalog to create a vSAN wanted state. When you use the firmware catalog and the corresponding Dell customized ESXi ISO image, you achieve a wanted state from the driver firmware compatibility point of view. Below is a table which maps the recommended firmware catalog for Dell's VMware vSAN Ready nodes along with the corresponding customized ESXi images which contain the supported and certified HBA and NVMe drivers. This is a living document and gets modified as and when new catalogs are released. The Dell customized VMware ESXi images can be downloaded from the VMware download page . The driver versions that are integrated into Dell customized VMware ESXi images are documented in 8.x, 7.x and 6.x customization guides. See Dell support pages for 8.x, 7.x and 6.x for various documentations around Dell VMware ESXi versions. Starting May 2024, we have divided the payload content to multiple articles based on the ESXi branch. This page is going to be static and the below articles have the firmware payloads for individual ESXi based vSAN branches moving forward. For the vSAN catalog payloads supporting ESXi 6.x branch, refer PowerEdge: Firmware catalog for Dell's vSAN Ready Nodes based on ESXi 6.x branches. For the vSAN catalog payloads supporting ESXi 7.x branch, refer PowerEdge: Firmware catalog for Dell's vSAN Ready Nodes with ESXI 7.X branch Images. For the vSAN catalog payloads supporting ESXi 8.x branch, refer PowerEdge: Firmware catalog for Dell's vSAN Ready Nodes with ESXi 8.x branch Images. Affected Products PowerEdge C6520, PowerEdge C6620, PowerEdge MX750c, PowerEdge MX760c, PowerEdge R350, PowerEdge R450, PowerEdge R640, PowerEdge R650, PowerEdge R650xs, PowerEdge R6515, PowerEdge R6525, PowerEdge R660, PowerEdge R6615, PowerEdge R6625, PowerEdge R740 , PowerEdge R740XD, PowerEdge R750, PowerEdge R750XA, PowerEdge R750xs, PowerEdge R7515, PowerEdge R7525, PowerEdge R760, PowerEdge R760XA, PowerEdge R7615, PowerEdge R7625, PowerEdge R840, PowerEdge R860, PowerEdge XR11, PowerEdge XR12, PowerEdge XR4510c, PowerEdge XR4520c, PowerEdge XR5610, PowerEdge XR7620, Dell EMC vSAN MX750c Ready Node, Dell vSAN Ready Node MX760c, Dell EMC vSAN R640 Ready Node, Dell EMC vSAN R650 Ready Node, Dell

R840, OEMR R860, OEMR R940, OEMR R940xa, OEMR R960, OEMR T140, OEMR T150, OEMR T340, OEMR T350, OEMR T360, OEMR T440, OEMR T550, OEMR T560, OEMR T640, OEMR XL T640, OEMR T710, OEMR XL R240, OEMR XL R330, OEMR XL R340, OEMR XL R660xs, OEMR XL R6615, OEMR XL R6625, OEMR XL R760xs, OEMR XL R7615, OEMR XL R7625, OEMR XR11, OEMR XR12, OEMR XR4000r, OEMR XR4000w, OEMR XR4000z, OEMR XR4510c, OEMR XR4520c, OEMR XR5610, OEMR XR7620, OEMR XR8000r, OEMR XR8610t, OEMR XR8620t, PowerEdge SC1420, PowerEdge SC1425, PowerEdge SC1430, PowerEdge SC1435, PowerEdge XE 4__, PowerEdge XL 5133-4, PowerEdge C1100, PowerEdge C2100, PowerEdge C410X, Poweredge C4140, PowerEdge C5000, PowerEdge C5125, PowerEdge C5220, PowerEdge C5230, PowerEdge C6100, PowerEdge C6105, PowerEdge C6145, PowerEdge C6220, PowerEdge C6220 II, PowerEdge C6400, PowerEdge C6420, PowerEdge C6520, PowerEdge C6525, PowerEdge C8000, PowerEdge FC640, PowerEdge M640, PowerEdge M640 (for PE VRTX), PowerEdge MX5016s, PowerEdge MX7000, PowerEdge MX740C, PowerEdge MX750c, PowerEdge MX840C, PowerEdge R240, PowerEdge R250, PowerEdge R260, PowerEdge R340, PowerEdge R350, PowerEdge R360, PowerEdge R440, PowerEdge R450, PowerEdge R540, PowerEdge R550, PowerEdge R640, PowerEdge R6415, PowerEdge R650, PowerEdge R650xs, PowerEdge R6515, PowerEdge R6525, PowerEdge R660, PowerEdge R660xs, PowerEdge R6615, PowerEdge R6625, PowerEdge R670, PowerEdge R740, PowerEdge R740XD, PowerEdge R740XD2, PowerEdge R7415, PowerEdge R7425, PowerEdge R750, PowerEdge R750XA, PowerEdge R750xs, PowerEdge R7515, PowerEdge R7525, PowerEdge R760, PowerEdge R760XA, PowerEdge R760xd2, PowerEdge R760xs, PowerEdge R7615, PowerEdge R7625, PowerEdge R770, PowerEdge R840, PowerEdge R860, PowerEdge R940, PowerEdge R940xa, PowerEdge R960, PowerEdge T140, PowerEdge T150, PowerEdge T160, PowerEdge T340, PowerEdge T350, PowerEdge T360, PowerEdge T40, PowerEdge T440, PowerEdge T550, PowerEdge T560, PowerEdge T640, PowerEdge XE2420, PowerEdge XE 5__, PowerEdge XE 5__-2, PowerEdge XE 51__-2 (ATI Mach64), PowerEdge XE7100, PowerEdge XE7420, PowerEdge XE7440, PowerEdge XE8545, PowerEdge XE8640, PowerEdge XE9640, PowerEdge XE9680, PowerEdge SC 440, Dell EMC Repository Manager - Current Versions, Dell EMC Repository Manager 3.0, Dell EMC Repository Manager 3.0.1, Dell EMC Repository Manager 3.1, Dell EMC Repository Manager 3.2 ...

Article written by Nirmala Sundararajan of the Dell EMC HPC and AI Innovation Lab in November 2019 Table of Contents Introduction Solution Reference Architecture Hardware and Software configuration Solution Configuration Details Management Service Metadata Service Storage Service Client Service R740xd, 24x NVMe Drives, Details on CPU Mapping Performance Characterization Sequential Reads and Writes N-N Random Reads and Writes N-N Conclusion and Future Work Introduction Dell EMC HPC team proudly announces the release of the "Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC BeeGFS Storage" which is the latest addition to the HPC storage portfolio. This solution uses R740xd servers, each with 24x Intel P4600 1.6TB NVMe, Mixed Use Express Flash drives and two Mellanox ConnectX-5 InfiniBand EDR adapters. In this 24 NVMe drive configuration, 12x NVMe SSDs connect to a PCIe switch and each switch is connected to one CPU via a x16 PCIe extender card. Moreover, each IB interface is connected to one CPU. Such a balanced configuration with each CPU connected to one InfiniBand adapter and handling 12 NVMe SSDs provides maximum performance by ensuring that the processors are equally occupied in handling I/O requests to and from the NVMe drives. The focus of the solution is high performance I/O and it has been designed as a high-speed scratch solution. At the core of the solution is the use of high speed NVMe SSDs that offer very high bandwidth and low latency by removing the scheduler and queueing bottlenecks from the block layer. The BeeGFS file system also supports high aggregate I/O throughput Solution Reference Architecture Figure 1 shows the reference architecture of the solution. The management server is only connected via Ethernet to the metadata and storage servers. Each metadata and storage server have two InfiniBand links and is connected to the private network via Ethernet. The clients have one InfiniBand link and are connected to the private interface via Ethernet. Figure 1: Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC BeeGFS Storage - Reference Architecture Hardware and Software configuration Table 1 and 2 describe the hardware specifications of management server and metadata/storage server respectively. Table 3 describes the software versions used for the solution. Table 1 PowerEdge R640 Configuration (Management Server) Server Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 Processor 2x Intel Xeon Gold 5218 2.3 GHz, 16 cores Memory 12 x 8GB DDR4 2666MT/s DIMMs - 96GB Local Disks 6 x 300GB 15K RPM SAS 2.5in HDDs RAID Controller PERC H740P Integrated RAID Controller Out of Band Management iDRAC9 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller Power Supplies Dual 1100W Power Supply Units BIOS Version 2.2.11 Operating System CentOS™ 7.6 Kernel Version 3.10.0-957.27.2.el7.x86_64 Table 2 PowerEdge R740xd Configuration (Metadata and Storage Servers) Server Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd Processor 2x Intel Xeon Platinum 8268 CPU @