Deployment Guide
56  Dell EMC Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Networking Guide 
A  Validated components 
The following tables include the hardware, software, and firmware used to configure and validate the 
examples in this guide. 
A.1  Dell EMC Networking Switches 
  Switches and OS versions 
Qty 
Item 
OS Version 
2 
Dell EMC Networking S5248F-ON leaf switch 
10.4.2.2 
1 
Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON management switch 
10.4.2.2 
Note: See Table 1 for supported Dell EMC Networking switches and OS versions. 
A.2  S2D Ready Nodes 
Note: For the current list of supported firmware and driver versions, see the Support Matrix for Dell EMC 
Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI. 
A cluster of four PowerEdge R740xd S2D Ready Nodes was used to validate the examples in this guide. The 
nodes were each configured as shown in Table 15 for Windows Server 2016 and Table 16 for Windows 
Server 2019. 
  PowerEdge R740xd S2D Ready Node components with WS2016 
Qty per 
node 
Item 
Firmware 
Driver 
2 
Intel Xeon Gold 6148 CPU @ 2.40GHz, 20 cores 
- 
- 
12 
16GB DDR4 DIMM (192GB total) 
- 
- 
2 
960GB SATA SSD 
- 
- 
4 
4TB SATA HDD 
- 
- 
1 
Dell HBA330 Storage Controller 
15.17.09.06 
2.51.21.2 
1 
Boot Optimized Storage Solution (BOSS) S1 Controller 
w/ 2x240GB SATA M.2 SSD 
2.5.13.3011 
1.2.0.1048 
1 
QLogic FastLinQ QL41262HxCU-DE 2x25GbE SFP28 
14.07.07 
8.24.5.0 
1 
Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx 2x25GbE SFP28 
14.21.30.12 
2.0.19824.0 
1 
Intel X710 2x10GbE SFP+/I350 2x1000BASE-T rNDC 
18.5.17 
1.8.104.5 
- 
BIOS 
1.5.6 
- 
- 
iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller 
3.21.23.22 
- 










