Oracle^® Server X6-2 Product Notes

Supported Operating System Limitations

This section provides information about limitations and recommendations for supported operating systems when the Oracle Server X6-2 is configured with 8-terabyte (8-TB) 7200-RPM 3.5-inch SAS hard disk drives (HDDs).

Table 1  Limitations and Recommendations for 8-TB Drive Boot Support

Operating System (Minimum) Legacy Boot UEFI Boot Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU5 Boot partition in the front 2TB space Full capacity Oracle Linux 6 Update 7 and 8, Oracle Linux 7 Update 2 and 3 Boot partition in the front 2TB space Full capacity Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 7 and 8, and Oracle Linux 7 Update 2 Boot partition in the front 2TB space Full capacity Windows Server 2012 R2 Boot partition in the front 2TB space Full capacity Oracle VM 3.4.1 and 3.4.2 Boot partition in the front 2TB space Full capacity VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 1 and 2 Boot partition in the front 2TB space Full capacity