What Is New In This Release?

This release of Storage Management provides the following new features:

  • Added support for the following operating systems:
    • Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (64–bit)
    • VMware vSphere 5.0 U3 and 5.5
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
      • Foundation Edition

      • Essential Edition

      • Standard Edition

      • Datacenter Edition

  • Support for a new license format for Citrix XenServer 6.1
  • Added support for web browsers:
    • Mozilla Firefox version 22 and 23
    • Internet Explorer version 8, 9, 10, and 11
    • Google Chrome version 27, 28, 30, and 31
    • Safari version 6.0
  • Introduction of PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) 9 — PERC H730P Adapter
    • Support For RAID Level 10 Virtual Disk Creation on PERC 9 Hardware Controller — Uneven Span feature
    • Support For Advanced Format 4K Sector Hard-Disk Drives

    • T10 Standard Protection Information (PI) — Data Integrity Field

      For more information, see Support For PERC 9 Hardware Controllers

  • Added support for Software RAID controllers (PERC S110) on systems running the Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system.

  • Added support for Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) solid-state drives (SSDs) — Cryptographic Erase. For more information on Cryptographic Erase, see Enabling Cryptographic Erase On A Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) PCIe SSD

  • Added support for the following LSI Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs):

    • LSI SAS 9207–8e

    • LSI SAS 9300–8e

    • LSI SAS 9206–16e