Supported Controller Firmware And Nvsram; Supported Sas Host Bus Adapters; Supported Iscsi Software Initiators; Supported Protocol Offload (Toe / Iscsi) Adapters - Dell PowerVault MD3200 Series Support Matrix

* Refer to the Hardware Installation section of the MD3200 or MD3200i or MD3600i Series Owner's
Manual.
** Dell Linux MPP drivers for the MD3000 can coexist with the Device Mapper driver used for the MD3200
and MD3600 series. Refer to coexistence whitepaper for supporting MD3000, MD3200 and MD3600 series
products on a single host.
*** Refer to the Disk Group Migration section of the MD3200 or MD3200i or MD3600i Series Owner's
Manual.
Supported Controller Firmware and NVSRAM
NOTE: It is advisable to gather support information before performing any firmware upgrade. This can be
performed from the support tab of the MD Storage Manager application.
NOTE: Only drivers and firmware released by Dell are supported. For the latest driver and firmware
releases, see the Downloads section at support.dell.com.
To determine your firmware and NVSRAM levels:
From a management station, connect to the storage array using MD Storage Manager.
Select the Support tab.
Click on Storage Array Profile and look for the firmware and NVSRAM versions.
Software
Controller Firmware
Controller NVSRAM
Supported SAS Host Bus Adapters
Please see support.dell.com for the latest supported firmware and driver versions.
Adapter Name
Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA
Supported iSCSI Software Initiators
Operating System
Windows 2003 R2 SP2
Windows 2008 R2 SP2
Windows 2008 SP2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Suse Linux Enterprise Server
VMware ESX
Citrix XENserver
Supported Protocol Offload (TOE / iSCSI) Adapters
Standard Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters are supported when used with supported software iSCSI initiators.
Version
07.75.14.60
N26X0-770890-009
for MD3200 and MD3200i Series
N26X0-770890-909
for MD3600i Series
SW Initiator Vendor
Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft
Red Hat
Suse
VMware
Citrix
Notes
SW Initiator Version
2.08, 2.07
RTM or later
RTM or later
RTM or later
RTM or later
RTM or later
RTM or later
Notes
Available via MS download
Included w/OS
Included w/OS
Included w/OS
Included w/OS
Included w/OS
Included w/OS