Hardware Support Matrix for Linux

Product Items/Features
(Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT functional w/ as-is OS)
SLED11 SP3 or later
(x86 64)
RHEL 6.5 or later
(x86 64)
HP Workstation Base System
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc.
• •
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP Localization Kit
• •
Software
Remote Graphics Software
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (single-CPU configs) • •
Hyperthreading
• •
CSM (Compatibility Support Module) Mode
• •
2.1 UEFI Mode
• •
Intel AMT remote manageability
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2)
No Graphics Card
• •
Intel Onboard Graphics
8 8
NVIDIA NVS 310
• •
NVIDIA NVS 315
• •
NVIDIA Quadro 410
• •
NVIDIA NVS 510
• •
NVIDIA Quadro K600
• •
AMD FirePro v3900
• •
System RAM
Minimum (GB)
2GB 2GB
Maximum (GB)
32GB 32GB
Hard Disks
SATA Controllers
5 5
All Supported SAS Disk Drives
All Supported SSD Disk Drives • •
All Supported SATA Disk Drives less than 3TB • •
All Supported SATA Disk Drives 3TB and larger 7 7
All Supported USB Drive Keys • •
Z Turbo Drive PCIe-attached storage 10 10
Network Cards (no modem support)
Intel i210-T1 GbE PCIe NIC
• •
Wireless Intel 6205 802.110 a/b/g/n PCiex1 NIC
11 •
HP X520 10GbE Dual Port Adapter (and SFP+ SR Transceiver)
• •
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Intel i217LM Gigabit Ethernet
• •
Onboard Audio
• •
Onboard SATA RAID
4 4
Onboard USB 3.0
• •
Add Ons
IEEE 1394B PCI-E Card
• •
Thunderbolt
TM
PCI-E Card (See footnote 9)
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive
• •
HP 16x Super Multi DVD+RW
3 3
HP BD-RE (Blu-Ray writer)
3 3
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP Mouse, PS/2 or USB
• •
HP Standard Keyboard, USB/PS2
• •
TPM Module/ Smart Card
HP Media Card Reader
• •
HP Printers
6 6
All Supported Monitors
• •
footnote 11 - Support for this device is available in updates from SUSE or from the HP Installer Kit for Linux disk image (see footnote 2).
Linux Hardware Matrix for HP Workstations
HP Z230 SFF Workstation
Originally certified with SLED 11 SP3 (x86_64) and RHEL 6.5 (x86_64).
This page is not complete without the General Notes (first page of the matrix).
footnote 1 - HP systems can usually be ordered with a localization that affects documentation, keyboards, and other components. Typical Linux distributions are
not installed as pre-localized, but the user can choose a language and keyboard layout during post-installation configuration, or during the "first boot" when the
OS comes preloaded on the system.
footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers, "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6" and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for
SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/z230SFF ; select "download drivers and software".
Firmware Features
footnote 3 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW and Blu-ray media on Red Hat EL 5 Desktop or later and SLED11 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe
functionality,
please visit www.lightscribe.com for software to enable the labeling feature.
footnote 4 - Hardware RAID is not supported on SATA drives. Software RAID is available in most Linux OSes.
footnote 5 - The Z230 SFF can support up to 2 SATA drives.
footnote 6 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP printers, please visit http://www.hplip.net.
footnote 7 - In general, single drives or volumes larger than 2.2TB can only be fully accessed using GPT formatting. Newer Linux OSes can format GPT for the
boot drive or volume but may require installation of UEFI boot support. OSes listed can all access GPT-formatted volumes.
footnote 8 - Depending on the OS release, the kernel DRM and X.org "Intel" driver may not support the Intel graphics correctly.
footnote 9 - Newer Linux kernels may provide device functionality through the Thunderbolt module. Such kernels are likely to be available in leading-edge
distributions, but inclusion of the support with any Enterprise Linux distribution is at the distributor's discretion. For example, neither SLED 11 SP3 nor RHEL 6.5
incorporates significant Thunderbolt support.
footnote 10 - The Z Turbo Drive PCIe-attached storage device has its own controller and is supported by the standard ahci kernel module in supported OSes.
Released June 2014