Minimum System Requirements

These are the minimum versions of the operating systems and technologies required for the Oracle Virtual Networking host driver release 5.5.0.

Operating System or Technology Minimum Requirement Oracle Solaris OS (64-bit SPARC-based and x86 platforms) 11.3 XgOS 3.9.2 Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 Oracle VM Server for x86 3.0

Supported HCAs

Oracle Virtual Networking host drivers for Oracle Solaris 11.3 support Oracle HCAs as well as third-party HCAs. All HCAs must use the required version of firmware. Refer to the product notes for each HCA for latest firmware versions.

Supported Oracle HCAs include:

• Sun InfiniBand Dual Port 4x QDR PCIe Low Profile Host Channel Adapter M2. For documentation, refer to http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19241-01/index.html.

• Sun InfiniBand Dual Port 4x QDR PCIe ExpressModule Host Channel Adapter M2. For documentation, refer to http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19157-01/index.html.

• Oracle Dual Port QDR InfiniBand Adapter M3. For documentation, refer to http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E40985_01/index.html.

For third-party HCAs, refer the manufacturer’s documentation for information about the required firmware version.