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8 Brocade Adapters Administrator’s Guide
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Operating system support
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Operating system support
There are slight differences in the operating systems (OSs) that are supported on the driver, on the
Host Connectivity Manager (HCM), and the Brocade Command Line Utility (BCU), and the HCM
agent.
Ethernet Link Layer Driver OS support
Table 2 lists the operating systems supported on the driver.
NOTE
The Brocade Command Line Utility (BCU) is a standalone application that is installed as part of the
driver package. The BCU is used primarily for managing adapters installed on a local machine. The
BCU is supported across all operating system versions listed in
Table 2 .
Supported drivers vary with the operating system being used. For example, for Windows, the
Storport miniport driver is supported (there is no support for the SCSI miniport driver) and for
Solaris, only the Leadville-based driver is supported.
TABLE 2 Ethernet Link Layer Driver operating system support
Operating System x86 IA64 IEM64T AMD64
Windows Server 2003, R2, SP2
Requires SP2 plus Hotfix 932755 and
KB943545 Yes No Yes Yes
Windows Server 2008 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Linux 2.6 kernel
Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
10.1, 10.2 Yes No Yes Yes
Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.0 Yes No Yes Yes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.6, 4.7 Yes No Yes Yes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2, 5.3 Yes No Yes Yes
VMware ESX 3.5, U3, U4 Yes No Yes Yes