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Supported Features on Demand software

Use this information for an overview of the supported Features on Demand software.

The following table lists the supported Features on Demand (FoD) software. For more information, see Installing an adapter. For more information about enabling Features on Demand software, see Enabling Features on Demand Ethernet software.
Table 1. Supported Features on Demand software and information about the Features on Demand software.

Features On Demand softwareNotes
ServeRAID M1100 Series Zero Cache/RAID 5 Upgrade for System x
  • Provides RAID levels 5 and 50 support.
ServeRAID M5100 Series RAID 6 Upgrade for System x
  • Provides RAID levels 6 and 60 support.
ServeRAID M5100 Series Performance Accelerator for System x (FoD FastPath)
  • Accelerates solid-state drive RAID devices by reducing the processing overhead that is associated with caching.
  • One of the RAID cache cards must be installed in the RAID cache card connector on the RAID controller to enable this capability.
ServeRAID M5100 Series SSD Caching Enabler for System x (FoD Cachecade 1 or 2)
  • Enables a hard disk drive RAID array to have its own solid-state drive cache. The solid-state drive cache is much larger than the DRAM cache on the controller and can provide better performance acceleration. Cachecade 1 is read cache only, and Cachecade 2 adds write caching.

For information about the supported RAID cache cards and RAID controllers, see Supported RAID cache cards and Supported RAID adapters. For information about the supported Ethernet adapters, see Supported ML2 (Ethernet) adapters.