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 (Springville) 1G

  • Intel I350 (Powerville) 1G

  • Intel 82599 (Niantic) 10G

  • Intel X540 10G

  • Intel X710/XL710/X722 (Fortville) 10G

  • Intel XXV710 (Fortville) 25G

  • Intel E810 (Columbiaville) 25G/100G

  • Emulex XE102 10G

  • Broadcom BCM5719 1G

  • Broadcom BCM57810 10G

  • Broadcom 57504 100G

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

NICs Verified for SR-IOV

  • Intel 82599 (Niantic) 10G

  • Intel X710/XL710/X722 (Fortville) 10G

  • Intel XXV710 (Fortville) 25G

  • Intel E810 (Columbiaville) 25G/100G

  • 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

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 (Fortville)

  • Intel E810-XXVDA4 (Columbiaville - Salem Channel)

  • Broadcom 57504 100G

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

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

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

  • Intel E810-XXVDA4T (Columbiaville - Westport Channel) 25G

  • Intel E810-CQDA2T (Columbiaville - Logan Beach) 100G

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 iLO4

  • HPE iLO5

  • Quanta

  • Dell iDRAC 9

  • MegaRAC SP-x 0.26.0