Description Ports (total) Internal ports (SATA) Internal ports (SAS) Internal ports (NVMe) Cache Raid-level RAID-level notes Max. drives per array Scalability (SAS/SATA) Bus Technology Cache Protection option internal connectors VMware vSAN Field of application
Microchip Adaptec SmartRAID 3102-8i SAS-SATA 8x internal 8 8 0 2 GB 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60, JBOD Hardware-Raid 128 256 SAS/SATA PCIe 3.0 x8 SAS-3 (12Gb/s) not possible 2x SFF-8643 vSAN 7.0 All Flash, vSAN 7.0 Hybrid
Microchip Adaptec SmartRAID 3152-8i SAS-SATA incl. cache protection 8x internal 8 8 0 2 GB 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60, JBOD Hardware-Raid 128 256 SAS/SATA PCIe 3.0 x8 SAS-3 (12Gb/s) ZMCP (included in the scope of delivery) 2x SFF-8643 Keine Zertifizierung für vSAN
Broadcom MegaRAID 9580-8i8e SAS-SATA-NVMe 8x internal / 8x external 8 8 2 8 GB 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60, JBOD   32 240 SAS/SATA PCIe 4.0 x8   CacheVault (optional)   Keine Zertifizierung für vSAN