Supported Operating System Limitations
This section provides information about limitations and recommendations for
the supported operating systems when the Sun Server X4-2L is configured with
4-terabyte (4-TB) 7200-RPM 3.5-inch SAS hard disk drives (HDDs)
and either
the SGX-SAS6-INT-Z HBA or the SGX-SAS6-R-INT-Z HBA (Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID
internal HBA).
If your server configuration includes 4-TB 3.5-inch SAS drives and rear
2.5-inch drives, you can use the following operating
systems or
later without installation or boot drive limitations. You
also
can use the smaller capacity rear 2.5-inch drives for your installation and boot
image.
The following table lists 4-TB drive boot support
minimum
operating system limitations and recommendations when the system is configured
with either the SGX-SAS6-INT-Z HBA or the SGX-SAS6-R-INT-Z HBA.
Table 2 Limitations and Recommendations for 4-TB Install and Boot Support
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Oracle Solaris 10
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2 TB used, 2 TB unusable
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Not applicable
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Use a virtual drive that is less than 2 TB
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Not applicable
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Oracle Solaris 11.1 and 11.2
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Recommended
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Recommended
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Recommended
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Recommended
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Oracle Linux 6.3, 6.4 and 6.5
RHEL 6.4 and 6.5
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Use a boot partition that is less than 2 TB
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Recommended
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Use a boot partition that is less than 2 TB
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Recommended
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Oracle Linux 5.9 and 5.10
RHEL 5.9 and 5.10
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Not applicable
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Not applicable
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Use a boot partition that is less than 2 TB
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Not applicable
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SLES 11 SP2 and SP3
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Use a boot partition that is less than 2 TB
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Recommended
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Use a boot partition that is less than 2 TB
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Recommended
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Windows Server 2008 SP2/R2 SP1
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2 TB used, 2 TB unusable
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Recommended
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Use a virtual drive that is less than 2 TB (LSI MegaRaid
SAS2 Driver is required for Windows 2008 SP2, which is
available on Oracle System Assistant)
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Recommended
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Windows Server 2012/2012 R2
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2 TB used, 2 TB unusable
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Recommended
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Use a virtual drive that is less than 2 TB
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Recommended
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Oracle VM 3.2 and 3.3
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Not applicable
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Not applicable
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Use virtual drive that is less than 2 TB
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Not applicable
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VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 2 and Update 3
ESXi 5.1 Update 1 and Update 2
ESXi 5.5 and ESXi 5.5 Update 1
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Recommended
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Recommended
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Recommended
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Recommended
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The following table lists limitations for the preinstalled operating systems
that use 4-TB boot drives when the system is configured with either the
SGX-SAS6-INT-Z or the SGX-SAS6-R-INT-Z host bus adapter (HBA).
Table 3 Preinstalled Operating System Support for 4-TB Drives
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Oracle VM 3.x
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Not supported
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