3. Requirements
3.1 CPU
Intel
Xeon E5 V3 family or later.
AMD
EPYC 7001 series or later.
Also requires a vacant PCIe x16 slot on the host server for host adapter card installation. (PCIe Gen3 or later)
3.2 Host OS
Standard Mode
Ubuntu
Windows
No limitations
Cent OS / RHEL
Advanced mode is not limited to the OS listed above. The listed OS are recommended as they have been tested to
support PCIe device hot plug.
3.3 BIOS
Host BIOS Capability
▪ 4G decode
▪ MMIOBase > 56T
▪ MMIO High size >512G
▪ PCI Access Control Services (ACS) disability.
3.4 Web Browsers
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Enabling ACS may impact GUP P2P support.
However, it does not affect the operation of Falcon
PCIe Expansion solutions.
Please update to the latest version.
Please update to the latest version.
Advanced mode
16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS
Build 1903-20H2
7.3-8.0
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