-Even though the server or the CPU's are not on the HCL (Hardware Certified List), it does work. Even with a Xeon E-2600 v0 CPU (with the CPU bypass setting). The Perc H710 mini mono RAID card is recognized. The onboard NICs are recognized.
-Mellanox ConnectX-3 40Mbps network cards are no longer supported
-There are three different versions of Perc H710; the firmware and drivers are all the same. The third revision is actually PCIe Gen 3, however by default it is set to Gen2 mode. The change is easily done in the RAID card settings. Thanks to the Art of Server for pointing that out.
-The XD model has twelve 3.5" hard drive bays. In order to make that work there is no real-estate for an optical drive or the LCD screen normally seen on PowerEdge Servers. There is an optional "flex-bay" kit which adds two 2.5" bays at the rear of the machine. Interestingly when one adds the flex-bay, it disables the two onboard SATA connectors, even though the drives in the flex-bay are operated by the HBA/RAID controller.
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