Supported RAID Controllers and Server Hardware in VEOS 8.x
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:
(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:
(All PCI-IDs are included in the aacraid module.)
2.2 Broadcom / LSI MegaRAID SAS (megaraid_sas)
Supported:
(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)
2.7 Fibre Channel
Emulex (lpfc):
All generations supported:
DragonFly, Neptune, Thor, Falcon
LPe11000 / LPe12000 / LPe16000 / LPe31000 / LPe32000
QLogic (qla2xxx / qla4xxx):
Supported:
3. Network Adapters
3.1 Only iSCSI Offload is Supported
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