Solarflare
Server
Adapter
User
Guide
Introduction
Issue
20
©
Solarflare
Communications
2017
17
1.3
Software
Driver
Support
The
software
driver
is
currently
supported
on
the
following
distributions:
•
Windows®
Server
2008,
R2
only.
•
Windows®
Server
2012,
including
R2.
•
Red
Hat
Enterprise
Linux
6
(6.5
or
later)
•
Red
Hat
Messaging
Realtime
and
Grid
2
update
5
•
Red
Hat
Enterprise
Linux
7.x
•
Red
Hat
Enterprise
Linux
for
Realtime
7.x
•
SUSE
Linux
Enterprise
Server
11
(SP3
or
later),
and
12
(base
release).
•
SUSE
Linux
Enterprise
Real
Time
11
(SP3
or
later).
•
Ubuntu
14.04
LTS,
14.10,
15.04,
15.10
and
16.04
LTS.
•
Debian
7.x
and
8.x.
•
FreeBSD
10.x.
•
VMware®
ESX™
5.0,
ESXi™
5.1,
5.5
and
6.0.
•
Linux®
KVM.
Support
includes
all
minor
updates/releases/service
packs
of
the
above
major
releases,
for
which
the
distributor
has
not
yet
declared
end
of
life/support.
Solarflare
are
not
aware
of
any
issues
preventing
building
and
installing
the
driver
on
other
Linux
variants
that
use
kernel
versions
2.6.18
‐
4.11
inclusive.
Solarflare
SFN6122F
and
SFN5162Fadapters
are
supported
on
the
IBM
POWER
architecture
(PPC64)
running
RHEL
6.4
on
IBM
System
p
servers.
The
Solarflare
accelerated
network
middleware,
OpenOnload
and
EnterpriseOnload,
is
supported
on
all
Linux,
Ubuntu,
and
Debian
variants
listed
above,
and
is
available
for
all
Solarflare
Onload
network
adapters.
Solarflare
are
not
aware
of
any
issues
preventing
OpenOnload
installation
on
other
Linux
variants
such
as
Centos
and
Fedora.