Install Guide

Configure Hyper-V hosts to access SC Series arrays with SAS FE ports
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Stage the host servers with a supported Windows Server OS version and patch them to the
desired level. Windows Server 2008 R2 or newer is required to support SAS FE HBA drivers.
Windows Server 2016 (with Desktop) is used in the examples shown in this document.
As a best practice, use the Dell PowerEdge Server Lifecycle Controller (press F10 at boot) to
update the internal hardware components of your host servers and to broker the OS install using
the latest PowerEdge Server OS driver pack.
Join the Windows server Hyper-V hosts to a Microsoft Active Directory
®
domain (recommended),
and install the following roles and features as a minimum:
 Hyper-V
 Failover Clustering
 Multipath I/O
3.2 Install and configure a SAS HBA in each Windows host server
After the prerequisite steps are complete, install a supported SAS HBA in an available PCIe slot in each host
server, and update the firmware and Windows driver by following the steps in this section. If installing more
than one SAS card per host, the SAS HBAs must be identical. The example configuration in this document
shows one HBA per server.
Install a SAS HBA in an available full- or half-height PCIe slot