Compatibility Matrix

Minimum version requirement for baselines.............................................................................................................................4
Current baseline.....................................................................................................................................................................4
Legacy baselines.................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Baseline threshold guidelines..................................................................................................................................................... 6
Storage subsystem baseline types............................................................................................................................................ 7
Baseline v8— Support for additional Operating systems.................................................................................................7
Baseline v7— Support for PowerEdge M640................................................................................................................... 8
Baseline v6—current baseline Support for Self-Encrypting Drives and bug fixes....................................................... 9
Baseline v5—Shared Storage Expansion through Shared PERC 8 external controllers............................................10
Baseline v4—Fault tolerant support for Linux operating systems and bug fixes.........................................................11
Updating firmware..................................................................................................................................................................... 12
Updating server modules.......................................................................................................................................................... 13
Updating PowerEdge VRTX enclosure components.............................................................................................................14
Documentation resources.........................................................................................................................................................15
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