Booting through the HBA is supported in the following operating system and technology environments:
Oracle Solaris 10 01/13 OS for the SPARC and x86 platforms
Oracle Solaris 10 11.1 OS for the SPARC and x86 platforms
RHEL 5.9 and 6.4 OSes
SLES 11 SP2 OS
Oracle Linux 5.9 and 6.4 OSes
Oracle VM 3.2.1 OS
Windows Server 2008 R2 including SP1 OS
Windows Server 2012 OS
ESX and ESXi Server, version 5.0 and 5.1 technology