Kubernetes Verified Commercial Hardware

Supported hardware components for use with StarlingX are listed here.

Table 1. Verified Components

Component

Approved Hardware

Disk Controllers

  • Dell PowerEdge RAID Controllers (PERC).

  • Generalize to HPE Smart Array Controllers

  • LSI 2308

  • LSI 3008

NICs Verified for PXE Boot, Management, and OAM Networks

  • Intel I210 1G

  • Intel I350 1G

  • Intel 82599 10G

  • Intel X540 10G

  • Intel X710/XL710/X722 10G

  • Intel XXV710 25G

  • Intel E810 25G/100G

  • Intel Ethernet Connection E825-C (integrated into the Intel Xeon 6 SoC)

  • Intel Ethernet Network Adapter E830-XXVDA8F for OCP 3.0

  • Emulex XE102 10G

  • Broadcom BCM5719 1G

  • Broadcom BCM57810 10G

  • Broadcom 57504 100G

  • NVIDIA Mellanox MCX4121A-ACAT (ConnectX-4) Lx 10G/25G

  • Silicom TimeSync STS2

NICs Verified for SR-IOV

  • Intel 82599 10G

  • Intel X710/XL710/X722 10G

  • Intel XXV710 25G

  • Intel E810 25G/100G

  • Intel Ethernet Connection E825-C

  • Intel Ethernet Network Adapter E830-XXVDA8F for OCP 3.0

  • NVIDIA Mellanox MCX4121A-ACAT (ConnectX-4) 10G/25G

  • NVIDIA Mellanox MCX512A-ACAT (ConnectX-5) 100G

  • NVIDIA Mellanox MCX623106AC-CDAT, MCX623106AN-CDAT (ConnectX-6) 100G

  • Broadcom 57504

  • Silicom TimeSync STS2

Note

For Mellanox NICs, SR-IOV must be enabled in the NIC firmware.

NIC for High-precision timing synchronization with IEEE 1588 PTP

  • Intel X710

  • Intel E810-XXVDA4

  • Intel Ethernet Connection E825-C / Intel Ethernet Network Adapter E830-XXVDA8F for OCP 3.0 (only for outgoing PTP messages/SyncE signals) / Microchip timing module MD-990-0011-AA01

  • Broadcom 57504 100G

  • NVIDIA Mellanox MCX512A-ACAT (ConnectX-5) 100G

  • NVIDIA Mellanox MCX623106AC-CDAT, MCX623106AN-CDAT (ConnectX-6) 100G

  • Silicom TimeSync STS2

Note

It is recommended to configure systems to use the realtime kernel when using IEEE 1588 PTP with Intel E800 series NICs using the ice driver.

The standard kernel cannot provide any guarantees for ice driver thread priority and scheduling which can result in degraded PTP timing accuracy.

NIC for High-precision timing synchronization with IEEE 1588 PTP, SyncE and GNSS

  • Intel E810-XXVDA4T 25G

  • Intel E810-CQDA2T 100G

  • Intel Ethernet Connection E825-C / Intel Ethernet Network Adapter E830-XXVDA8F for OCP 3.0 (only for outgoing PTP messages/SyncE signals) / Microchip timing module MD-990-0011-AA01 / u-blox GNSS timing card M2-ZED-F9T-20B

Note

It is recommended to configure systems to use the realtime kernel when using IEEE 1588 PTP with Intel E800 series NICs using the ice driver.

The standard kernel cannot provide any guarantees for ice driver thread priority and scheduling which can result in degraded PTP timing accuracy.

Hardware Accelerator Devices Verified for PCI SR-IOV Access

GPUs Verified for PCI Passthrough

  • NVIDIA Corporation: VGA compatible controller - GM204GL (Tesla M60 rev a1)

Board Management Controllers

  • HPE iLO5

  • Quanta

  • Dell iDRAC 9

  • MegaRAC SP-x 0.26.0

Other Hardware Accelerators

  • Intel DSA

  • Drivers for QAT Gen 4 Intel Xeon Gold Scalable processor (Sapphire Rapids) / Intel Gen 4 Xeon Scalable Processor QuickAssist Technology for Linux - HW Version 2.0

    • Intel Xeon Gold 6428N

  • Intel QAT Hardware Version 2.2 (integrated into the Intel Xeon 6 SoC)