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03_Supported_Hardware

Marc A. Smith edited this page May 8, 2015 · 5 revisions

System Requirements

ESOS will run on any x86-64 platform; a 64-bit capable CPU is required (eg, AMD64 / Intel 64). SCST, the core of ESOS, is fully multi-threaded with complete SMP support, meaning the more sockets/cores you have, and the faster your CPUs, the more IO that can be processed.

Enterprise-grade server hardware is definitely recommended for your ESOS disk array. Obviously redundant power supplies, multiple HBAs/HCAs/NICs, fault-tolerant RAID back-storage, memory sparring/mirroring, etc. should all be must-haves for production deployments.

In addition to the above, the following are required to run ESOS:

  • At least 4 GB of usable, physical RAM.
  • A USB flash drive that is at least 4 GB.

If you have any hardware that you would like supported that is not listed below, please submit a request to the esos-users Google Group.


Local RAID Controllers

While there is support for a number of different RAID controllers, not all brands include the CLI tools that allow creating/destroying/etc. volumes from inside ESOS. If your favorite RAID controller has a CLI tool, please let us know so we can consider including it with ESOS.
  • LSI Logic MegaRAID cards (CLI tool: MegaCli64 / storcli64)
    • Including re-branded MegaRAID compatible adapters: Dell PERC; IBM ServeRAID; Sun/Oracle, Cisco, and Intel RAID controllers
  • Adaptec AACRAID cards (CLI tool: arcconf)
    • Including re-branded AACRAID compatible adapters: IBM ServeRAID; Sun/Oracle RAID controllers
  • HP Smart Array cards (CLI tool: hpacucli)
  • Areca SATA/SAS RAID cards (CLI tool: cli64)
  • 3ware 9000-series SATA and 9700-series SATA/SAS RAID cards (CLI tool: tw_cli.x86_64)

Fibre Channel HBAs / FCoE CNAs (Target, Initiator Support)

QLogic FC HBAs and FCoE CNAs are fully supported in ESOS. Emulex FC/FCoE products based on SLI-4 are supported via the OneCore Storage SDK from Emulex (manual build required). Chelsio T5 10/40 GbE FCoE adapters are supported via the Unified Wire driver (manual build required).
  • QLogic QLA2XXX FC Host Bus Adapters (QLE2460, QLE2560, QLA2340, etc.)
  • QLogic QLE8XXX FCoE Converged Network Adapters (QLE8360, QLE8362, etc.)
  • Emulex XE201 IOC combo adapters (LPe15004, LPe16000B, LPe16202, and LPe16004)
  • Emulex XE100-series 10/40 GbE CNAs (OCe14102-UX, OCe14102-UM, OCe14101-NX, OCe14102-NX, and OCe14401-NX)
  • Chelsio T5 UWire CNAs (T520, T580, T540, and T522)

InfiniBand HCAs (Target, Initiator Support)

Several different brand/model IB Host Channel Adapters work with ESOS.
  • Mellanox InfiniHost Host Channel Adapters (MT23108, MT25208, etc.)
  • Mellanox ConnectX PCI Express HCAs (MNPH29D-XTR, MHGH28-XTC, etc.)
  • QLogic HTX Host Channel Adapter (QHT7140)
  • Intel PCIe QLE InfiniBand HCAs (QLogic QLE7340, QLE7280, etc.)
  • Chelsio iWARP/RDMA T3 1/10 GbE adapters
  • Cehlsio iWARP/RDMA T4 1/10 GbE adapters
  • NetEffect Ethernet Cluster Server Adapters (RNIC driver)

Network Interface Cards / CNAs (Initiator, NIC Support)

Although Linux provides drivers for a ton of different NICs, we tried to keep it simple and only support NICs that are common in enterprise IT environments. The list below includes popular 10 GbE and 1 GbE cards, and even a couple lower-end cards that might be useful for console/configuration access (SSH).
  • Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet adapters
  • Intel PRO/1000 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet adapters
  • Intel 82575/82576 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet adapters
  • Broadcom Tigon3 adapters
  • Broadcom NetXtremeII adapters (with CNIC support)
  • QLogic QLA3XXX adapters
  • Chelsio T1/T3/T4 1 GbE and 10 GbE adapters (with T3/T4 initiator iSCSI offload support)
  • Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC adapter
  • Intel 10GbE PCI Express adapters
  • Intel PRO/10GbE adapters
  • Mellanox Technologies ConnectX (including ConnectX-3) 10Gbit Ethernet adapters
  • Broadcom NetXtremeII 10Gb cards (with iSCSI/FCoE initiator offload support)
  • QLogic QLCNIC 1/10Gb CNAs (QLE8240, QLE8242)
  • QLogic QLGE ISP8XXX 10Gb Ethernet adapters
  • Brocade 1010/1020 10Gb Ethernet cards
  • Intel(R) PRO/100+ Ethernet cards
  • RealTek RTL-8139 C+ PCI Fast Ethernet adapters
  • RealTek RTL-8129/8130/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet adapters
  • Realtek 8169 Gigabit Ethernet cards
  • Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet cards
  • Marvell Yukon 2 Ethernet adapters