Supported Operating Systems - Dell QLogic Family of Adapters User Manual

Introduction: QLogic QME8242 Mezzanine Card User's Guide
Preboot-eXecution Environment (PXE)
iSCSI
Fibre Channel
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
PCIe 2.0 x8
Dynamic Power Management (DPM)
User diagnostics that can be run from the Command Line Interface (CLI) and the Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Ethernet functions include:
2x10 GbE with KR (copper backplane)
Priority and virtual LAN (VLAN) tagging
Jumbo frames up to 9618 bytes
Enhanced Ethernet functions include:
Priority-based flow control
Enhanced transmission selection
Advanced teaming
VLAN configuration and management
Preservation of teaming and VLAN configuration information during driver upgrade
Advanced stateless offload features include:
IP, TCP, and UDP checksums
Large Send Offload (LSO)
Large Receive Offload (LRO)
Stateful offload features include:
iSCSI offload
Fibre Channel and FCoE Host Bus Adapters
Advanced management features for iSCSI and Fibre Channel adapters, including QConvergeConsole (GUI and CLI)
Interrupt management and scalability features including:
Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
Interrupt moderation
Flow control
Locally Administered Address (LAA)
Enhanced optimization with MSI, MSI-X, and NetQueue

Supported Operating Systems

The QME8242 adapter supports the following operating systems. To view the most complete and current list, refer to the
QME8242 release notes.
Windows
Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 x86-32 and x86-64
Windows Server 2008 SP2 x86-32 and x86-64
Windows Server 2008 R2 x86-64
Hyper-V for Windows 2008 R2
Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 x86-32 and x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 x86-64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 x86-64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 x86-64
Solaris
Solaris 10 U9
VMware
ESX and ESXi 4.1 U1
ESX and ESXi 4.0 U3
NOTE: For the most current versions of the OS and drivers supported by the QME8242, refer to the release notes. The
release notes are supplied in the release.txt file. Global release notes files for the complete CD image are located at the
root of the CD. Additional release notes may be provided in the directories containing the individual software
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