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12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS RAID Controllers User Guide
April 2014
Chapter 1: Overview
Summary of 12Gb/s MegaRAID SATA+SAS RAID Controller Characteristics
1.5.2 Operating System Support
The 12Gb/s MegaRAID SATA+SAS RAID controllers support the following operating systems:
 Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2 (64-bit only), Windows 2003 R2 SP2, Windows Vista® SP2, Windows 7 Client SP1,
Windows 8, Windows 2008 SP2, Windows 2008 R2 SP1, and Window Server® 2012
 Red Hat® Linux®
 SuSE® SLES
 Ubuntu® Linux
 VMware®
 Solaris®
 FreeBSD®
 XenServer®
 Oracle® Enterprise Linux (OEL)
Refer to the MegaRAID SAS Device Driver Installation User Guide for more information about the drivers. To download
the latest operating system drivers, go to
http://www.lsi.com/cm/DownloadSearch.do .
The 12Gb/s MegaRAID SATA+SAS RAID controllers use Fusion-MPT architecture for all major operating systems, which
results in thinner drivers and better performance.
1.6 Summary of 12Gb/s MegaRAID SATA+SAS RAID Controller Characteristics
This section summarizes the features and benefits offered by the 12Gb/s MegaRAID SATA+SAS RAID controllers. It
contains information on SAS features, SATA features, PCI performance, integration, usability, and flexibility.
The 12Gb/s MegaRAID SATA+SAS RAID controllers have the following features:
 PCIe x8 lane width (with support for x16 connections)
 PCIe performance up to 8Gb/s per lane
 Support for 1-GB and 2-GB DDR3 at 1866 MHz with ONFI cache offload support
 One internal connector for the MegaRAID SAS 9341-4i RAID controller, the MegaRAID SAS 9361-4i RAID controller,
and MegaRAID SAS 9380-4i4e RAID controller
 Two internal connectors for the MegaRAID SAS 9341-8i RAID controller and the MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i
RAID controller
 One external connector for the MegaRAID SAS 9380-4i4e RAID controller
 Two external connectors for the MegaRAID SAS 9380-8e RAID controller
 Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60
 Advanced array configuration and management utilities
 Support for global hot spares and dedicated hot spares
 Support for user-defined strip sizes: 64 KB, 128 KB, 256 KB, 512 KB, or 1024 KB
NOTE MegaRAID does not support strip sizes smaller than 64 KB. However,
you can import virtual drives from legacy MegaRAID generations) that
use strip sizes smaller than 64 KB.
NOTE The MegaRAID SAS 9341-4i RAID controller and the MegaRAID SAS
9341-8i RAID controller support a stripe size of 64 KB only. The stripe
size for these two controllers cannot be changed.