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Vsphere 6 or 6.5 with 512e or 4Kn drives behind a perc h730 controller

I am specing out a couple of servers here and from what I read " (Advanced Format) hard drives. AF drives are also labeled as 512e or 4Kn"
are not supported with VMware 6.x.  I am not sure who to believe here. It is something I caught, yet Dell is recommending these drives for a vSphere 6 install.
Thoughts/ideas?
It appears NOT to be supported.

You guys feel comfy with 6.5 in Prod?
Thanks!!!!
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Yes, we are confident with 6.5 in production.

I would check with Dell, and get an iron clad guarantee on what they are recommending.
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Hey Andrew

Thanks  I will, actually it was recommended by their presales engineer, but from what I read it isn't supported, I will follow up with the tomorrow.
Remember that when connected to a RAID controller, a virtual disk (logical disk array) is presented to VMware vSphere.
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Andy - thanks so much for the valuable info and your help!