Booting through the HBA is supported in the following operating system and technology environments:
Oracle Solaris 11.2 OS with SRU5 for the x86 platform, if the Oracle Solaris OS is ordered.
Oracle Linux 7 OS
Oracle Linux 6.5 OS
Oracle VM 3.3 technology
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5 OS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP3 OS
Windows Server 2012 R2 OS
Windows Server 2012 OS
VMware ESXi 5.5 technology