IBM 10GBE manual Operating environment, Operating system support

Operating environment

This adapter complies with temperature rating requirements for BladeCenter H and BladeCenter HT chassis and is supported in the following environment:

zTemperature - Operating:

z10 to 52° C (50 to 125° F) at an altitude of 0 to 914 m (0 to 3,000 ft)

z10 to 49° C (50 to 120° F) at an altitude of 0 to 3,000 m (0 to 10,000 ft)

zTemperature - Non-operating:

z40 to 65°C (-40 to 149° F) at an altitude of 0 to 12,000 m (0 to 39,370 ft) z Humidity

zOperating: 8 to 80%, noncondensing

zNon-operating: 5 to 80%, noncondensing

Operating system support

The Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II supports the following operating systems:

zMicrosoft Windows Server 2003/2003 R2, Datacenter Edition

zMicrosoft Windows Server 2003/2003 R2, Datacenter x64 Edition

zMicrosoft Windows Server 2003/2003 R2, Enterprise Edition

zMicrosoft Windows Server 2003/2003 R2, Enterprise x64 Edition

zMicrosoft Windows Server 2003/2003 R2, Standard Edition

zMicrosoft Windows Server 2003/2003 R2, Standard x64 Edition

zMicrosoft Windows Server 2008 R2

zMicrosoft Windows Server 2008, Datacenter x64 Edition

zMicrosoft Windows Server 2008, Datacenter x86 Edition

zMicrosoft Windows Server 2008, Enterprise x64 Edition

zMicrosoft Windows Server 2008, Enterprise x86 Edition

zMicrosoft Windows Server 2008, Standard x64 Edition

zMicrosoft Windows Server 2008, Standard x86 Edition

zMicrosoft Windows Server 2008, Web x64 Edition

zMicrosoft Windows Server 2008, Web x86 Edition

zRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server Edition

zRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server x64 Edition

zRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server Edition

zRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server x64 Edition

zSUSE LINUX Enterprise Real Time 10 AMD64/EM64T

zSUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64/EM64T

zSUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86

zSUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64/EM64T

zSUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for x86

zSolaris 10 Operating System

zVMware ESX 3.5

zVMware ESX 4.0

zVMware ESX 4.1

zVMware ESXi 4.1

zVMware vSphere 5

Support for operating systems is based on the combination of the expansion card and the blade server on which it is installed. See the IBM ServerProven Web site for the latest information about the specific versions and service packs supported. Select the blade server, and then select the expansion card to see the supported operating systems. http://www.ibm.com/systems/info/x86servers/serverproven/compat/us/

Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter 8