Implementing SR-IOV on HP ProLiant Servers with VMware vSphere 5.1

Technical white paper | Implementing SR-IOV on HP ProLiant Servers with VMware vSphere

SR-IOV-compliant ProLiant servers

Table 2 lists the HP ProLiant servers and minimum System ROM version that are required for SR-IOV functionality.

Important

SR-IOV requires both hardware and System ROM compliance to work. Your server must have the minimum System ROM

version listed in the table to enable SR-IOV. If necessary, update the System ROM before beginning to enable SR-IOV.

Note

FlexibleLOM technology for HP rack mount servers is a variation of LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) architecture that allows you

to choose the type of NIC to be resident in the server. Only Gen8 servers with the right Flexible LOM can be considered

SR-IOV compliant. For additional information on FlexibleLOM technology refer to the white paper, Networking flexibility in HP

ProLiant servers with FlexibleLOM technology, available at

hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03405579/c03405579.pdf.

You can download System ROM updates from the SPP, which is available at hp.com/go/spp/download or the HP Support

Center at

hp.com/go/support.

Table 2. Supported ProLiant servers and ROM versions

Server platform System ROM family System ROM Version

ProLiant BL servers

BL420c Gen8 I30 12/13/2012 or later

BL460c Gen8 I31 12/11/2012 or later

BL660c Gen8 I32 12/11/2012 or later

ProLiant DL servers

DL360e Gen8 P73 12/11/2012 or later

DL360p Gen8 P71 12/4/2012 or later

DL380e Gen8 P73 12/11/2012 or later

DL380p Gen8 P70 12/12/2012 or later

DL560 Gen8 P77 12/5/2012 or later

DL580 G7 P65 11/8/2012 or later

DL980 G7 P66 30/7/2012 or later

ProLiant ML servers

ML350e Gen8 J02 12/13/2012 or later

ML350p Gen8 P72 12/7/2012 or later

ProLiant Blade/SL servers

SL230s Gen8 P75 12/11/2012 or later

SL250s Gen8 P75 12/11/2012 or later