Supported RAID Controllers and Server Hardware in VEOS 8.x

If your controller is not supported, you may still be able to load drivers using Installing driver updates.

1. Supported Drivers in the VEOS 8.x Kernel

RAID / SAS / Storage:

aacraid — Adaptec / Dell PERC (early generations), HP NetRAID, ICP Vortex.

megaraid_sas — Broadcom / LSI MegaRAID (including Dell PERC 5/6/7/8).

mpt3sas — LSI Fusion-MPT SAS-2 / SAS-3 controllers.

mpi3mr — Broadcom Tri-Mode RAID/HBA (current generations).

hpsa — HPE Smart Array (class 0x0104, including old and modern models).

smartpqi — HPE Smart Array Gen10+ and SmartHBA.

lpfc — Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel.

qla2xxx — QLogic Fibre Channel (all major generations).

qla4xxx — QLogic iSCSI HBA.

iSCSI Offload:

be2iscsi — Emulex OneConnect iSCSI Offload.

(Network drivers be2net/BE2/BE3 are NOT included in VEOS — BladeEngine 2/3 NICs are unsupported.)

2. Supported RAID Controllers and HBAs

2.1 Adaptec / Dell PERC (aacraid)

Supported:

Adaptec AAC-RAID ASR series

Dell PERC 2/3/Si/Di

HP/Compaq NetRAID

ICP Vortex RAID

(All PCI-IDs are included in the aacraid module.)

2.2 Broadcom / LSI MegaRAID SAS (megaraid_sas)

Supported:

LSI SAS1078 / SAS1078DE

Dell PERC 5/6/7/8

MegaRAID 2108 / 2208 / 3108 / 3408 and others

(The module covers the full stack of modern MegaRAID controllers.)

2.3 LSI Fusion-MPT SAS (mpt3sas)

Supported SAS-2 / SAS-3:

SAS2004

SAS2108

SAS2116

SAS2308

SAS3008

SAS3408 / SAS3508

2.4 Broadcom Tri-Mode (mpi3mr)

All modern PCI-IDs for Tri-Mode RAID/HBA are supported.

2.5 HPE Smart Array (hpsa)

Fully supported:

Smart Array P-Series (P212, P410, P420, P440, etc.)

Smart Array Gen9 / Gen10

Older Compaq SA (class 0x0104)

Modular RAID

2.6 SmartPQI (smartpqi)

Supported:

Smart Array Gen10+

HPE SmartHBA (P8xx/P9xx)

Adaptec SmartRAID / SmartHBA

2.7 Fibre Channel

Emulex (lpfc):

All generations supported:

DragonFly, Neptune, Thor, Falcon

LPe11000 / LPe12000 / LPe16000 / LPe31000 / LPe32000

QLogic (qla2xxx / qla4xxx):

Supported:

ISP2100 → ISP8432

QLE8xxx / QLE10xxx

QLogic iSCSI: ISP8022, 8324, 8042, 8044

3. Network Adapters

3.1 Only iSCSI Offload is Supported

Emulex OneConnect iSCSI (be2iscsi)

4. Supported Server Platforms

Confirmed by the set of included VEOS kernel drivers:

Dell PowerEdge (PERC / LSI / Broadcom)

HPE ProLiant (Smart Array, SmartPQI, HBA)

Supermicro (LSI/Broadcom SAS/SATA stack)

IBM / Lenovo (ServeRAID, MegaRAID)

All servers based on Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC