Dell Brocade Adapters - Manual (Page 17)

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• Linux RHEL 4.9, 5.5, 5.6, 6.0, 6.1 (x86 and x64)
• Linux SLES 10 and 11 (x86 and x64)
• Solaris 10 (x86, x64, and SPARC)
NOTE
Solaris is not supported on Brocade 804 or 1007 adapters.
• Xen Hypervisor (x86 and x64)
Refer to
“Hypervisor support” on page xvii.
• VMware ESX Server 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0 (x64)
NOTE
Drivers and BCU are supported on the VMware ESX platforms. HCM is supported only on the
guest system on VMware. Network drivers are not supported on IA-64 systems.
• Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5.6, 6.0 (x86 and x64)
Hypervisor support
The following lists operating systems that support hypervisor operation for Brocade adapters:
• Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V (x64)
• Linux RHEVH 6.x (x64)
• Linux XEN (x86 and x64)
• Linux KVM (x64)
• VMware ESX 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0 (x64)
• Oracle VM 3.0 (x64)
• Citrix XenServer 6.0 (x64)
Host operating system support for HCM
The following operating systems support HCM management for adapters.
• Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x64)
• Windows Server 2008 R2/SP1 (x86 and x64)
• Windows SBS 2011 (x64)
• Windows XP
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7 SP1 (x86 and x64)
• Linux 5.5, 5.6, 6.0, 6.1 (x86 and x64)
NOTE
HCM is a 32-bit application. To use HCM on Linux RHEL 6.0 x64 systems, you must install the
x32-compatible libraries because they are not installed by default.
• Linux SLES 10 and 11 (x86 and x64)