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Exos E / JBOD Compatibility Interop Matrix for 2U12, 2U24 and 5U84 Systems

Broadcom Intel Dell Microchip
Version 9300-8e 9400-16e 9405W-16e 9500-8E 9500-16E 9600-16E (SAS4) MegaRAID 9480-8i8e MegaRAID 9580-8i8e RAID Adapter RSP3MD088F PowerEdge RAID controller H840 1100-16e 1200-16e (SAS4)
Windows 2022 Hyper-V L L L
2019 ✔ ★
2022 L L ✔ ★
Ubuntu 20.04
22.04
Debian
11 N
Cent OS 7.9 ✔ ★
8.5
Enterprise Linux RHEL 8.7
9.1 ✔ ★
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12.5
15.4
VMWare ESXi 8.0 ✔ ★ ✔ ★
ESXi 7.0
Rocky Linux 9.1 ✔ ★
Cables Tested
Pass
Conditional Pass
Fail
Tested & Supported
Not Tested
N No OS Support
L Leveraged Support

NOTE: The 1200-16e with RHEL 9.1 and the 1200-16e with ESXI 8.0 are marked as conditional pass. Using optical cables, the link does not return after a loss in connection from the IOM. To fix this issue, a pull/push the cable from the HBA will bring the link back.

Cables Tested

Molex
Type Length PN
Passive Copper   Mini-SAS HD-to-Mini-SAS HD 3m 1110751003
Passive Copper   Mini-SAS HD-to-Mini-SAS HD 4m 1110751004
Passive Copper   Mini-SAS HD-to-Mini-SAS HD 5m 1110751005
Amphenol
Type Length PN
Passive Copper   Mini-SAS HD-to-Mini-SAS HD 4m 10120754-4040HLF
Passive Copper   Mini-SAS HD-to-Mini-SAS HD 5m 10120754-4050HLF
Fibre Optic   MINI SAS HD AOC 5m FOHH-B2-3L-00005
Fibre Optic   MINI SAS HD AOC 30m FOHH-B2-3L-00030

Note: Cables listed as supported were used in the process of Interoperability testing. The cable testing was not exhaustive and no I/O performance testing was performed.