====== Supported RAID Controllers and Server Hardware in VEOS 8.x ======
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<note tip>If your controller is not supported, you may still be able to load drivers using [[veos:first_install:use_driver_update_disk]].</note>

===== 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