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OS Vendor Support Matrix
Mellanox InfiniBand drivers, Ethernet drivers, protocol software and tools are supported by respective major OS Vendors and Distributions Inbox or by Mellanox where noted. Mellanox also supports all major processor architectures.
Mellanox InfiniBand driver and ULP have been tested and verified for support on all its previous generation and current generation HCA’s as noted in the OS Support matrix and includes support for all Major OS vendor release.
Mellanox MTNIC Ethernet driver support for Linux, Microsoft Windows and VMware ESX 3.5 are based on the ConnectX EN 10GbE NIC only.
| Distribution Source | OS Version supported (*Packages with MLNX are not In box) | Adapter Cards Supported | Supported CPU Architecture | Software Components |
| OpenFabrics | RHEL EL4 U3, U4,U5 &RHEL EL5, SLES9 SP3, SLES10, SLES10 SP1, Kernel.org: 2.6.19.x, 2.6.20.x | All InfiniHost III | x86_64, x86, ia64, ppc64 | OFED 1.2 Driver, IPoIB,SDP, SRP, UDAPL, MVAPICH, OPEN MPI, HP-MPI, Intel MPI |
| Kernel.org:2.6.20.x, 2.6.22.x, RHEL 4 U3, U4, U5, U6, RHEL 5, SLES 9 SP3, SP4, SLES 10, SLES 10 SP1, SLES 10 SP1 (up1), SuSE Pro 10.0, Fedora C6 | All InfiniHost III & ConnectX | x86_64, x86, ia64, ppc64 | OFED 1.2.5.5 Driver, IPoIB, SDP, SRP,RDS, iSER Host, uDAPL, VNIC, MVAPICH, iWARP, MVAPICH2, OPEN MPI, HP-MPI, Intel MPI | |
| Kernel.org kernel 2.6.23, 2.6.24 SLES10, SLES10 SP1 (up1), RHEL 4 U4,U5, U6, RHEL 5 U1 | All InfiniHost III & ConnectX | x86_64, x86, ia64, ppc64 | OFED 1.3 Driver, IPoIB, SDP, SRP, SRP Target RDS, iSER, uDAPL, VNIC,iWARP, MVAPICH, MVAPICH2,OPEN MPI 1.2.5 (ConnectX), Intel MPI (3.0), HP-MPI (2.2.5.1) Extras - open-iscsi with iSER support, ib-bonding driver with IPoIB interface | |
| Kernel.org kernel 2.6.23, 2.6.24 SLES10, SLES10 SP1, SLES10 SP1 (up1) SLES 10 SP2, RHEL 4 U4,U5, U6,RHEL 5, RHEL 5 U1,RHEL 5 U2 | All InfiniHost III & ConnectX | x86_64, x86, ia64, ppc64 | OFED 1.3.1 Driver, IPoIB, SDP, SRP, SRP Target RDS, iSER, uDAPL, VNIC,iWARP, MVAPICH, MVAPICH2,OPEN MPI 1.2.5 (ConnectX), Intel MPI (3.0), HP-MPI (2.2.5.1) Extras - open-iscsi with iSER support, ib-bonding driver with IPoIB interface | |
| MLNX_OFED | SLES10, SLES10 SP1, SLES10 SP1 (up1) SLES 10 SP2,, RHEL 4 U4,U5, U6,RHEL 5, RHEL 5 U1,RHEL 5 U2 | All InfiniHost III & ConnectX | x86_64, x86, ia64, ppc64 | OFED 1.3 based Driver including mlx4, mlx_core, IPoIB, SDP, SRP Initiator, RDS, MVAPICH, Open MPI, b-bonding driver with IPoIB interface. HP-MPI (2.2.5.1) |
| SLES10, SLES10 SP1, SLES10 SP1 (up1) SLES 10 SP2,, RHEL 4 U4,U5, U6,RHEL 5, RHEL 5 U1,RHEL 5 U2 | All InfiniHost III & ConnectX | x86_64, x86, ia64, ppc64 | OFED 1.3.1 based Driver including mlx4, mlx_core, IPoIB, SDP, SRP Initiator, RDS, MVAPICH, Open MPI, b-bonding driver with IPoIB interface. HP-MPI (2.2.5.1) | |
OS Inbox Support for Linux Distributions |
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| RedHat | RHEL 4 U2, U3, U4,U5, RHEL 5 | All InfiniHost III | x86_64, x86, ia64, ppc64 | OFED 1.1: Driver, IPoIB, SDP, SRP Initiator |
| RHEL 5 | All InfiniHost III | x86_64, x86, ia64, ppc64 | OFED 1.2: Driver, IPoIB, SDP, SRP Initiator, Open MPI | |
| RHEL 5.2 | All InfiniHost III & ConnectX | x86_64, x86, ia64, ppc64 | OFED 1.3: Driver (including mlx4), IPoIB, SDP, SRP Initiator, Open MPI | |
| Novell/SuSE | SLES 10, & SLES 10 SP1 | All InfiniHost III | x86_64, x86, ia64, ppc64 | OFED 1.1,1.2: Driver, IPoIB, SDP, SRP Initiator |
| SLES 10 SP2 | All InfiniHost III & ConnectX | x86_64, x86, ia64, ppc64 | OFED 1.1,1.2: Driver, IPoIB, SDP, SRP Initiator | |
| SLERT (SUSE Linux Enterprise Real-Time) | All InfiniHost III | x86_64, x86, ia64, ppc64 | OFED 1.1,1.2: Driver, IPoIB, SDP, SRP Initiator | |
| SLERT (SUSE Linux Enterprise Real-Time) | All InfiniHost III & ConnectX | x86_64, x86, ia64, ppc64 | OFED 1.3: Driver, IPoIB, SDP, SRP Initiator | |
| WinOF | Windows Server 2003, Windows CCS (64 bit) | All InfiniHost III & ConnectX | x86_64, x86, ia64 | WinOF 1.1: IPoIB, WSD, SRP, vNIC, uDAT/uDAPL v 1.1, uDAT/uDAPL v 2.0 |
| MLNX_WinOF | Windows Server 2003 | All InfiniHost III & ConnectX | x86_64, x86, ia64 | WinOF 1.1: IPoIB, WSD, SRP, vNIC, uDAT/uDAPL v 1.1, uDAT/uDAPL v 2.0 |
| WinIB | Windows Server 2003, Windows CCS v1 | All InfiniHost III WHQL Logo: InfiniHost III EX adapters | x86_64, x86, ia64 | WinIB 1.3: Driver, IPoIB, WSD, HP-MPI, MPI2, SDP, SRP Initiator , uDAPL |
Other OS Support (Mellanox InfiniBand) |
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| Sun Solaris | Solaris 10 | InfiniHost III adapters with memory | x86_64, x86 | IPoIB, MPI (MVAPICH2), uDPL, SRP, x86 Boot over SRP, RDS and SDP |
| HPUX | HPUX 11i v2, 11i v3 | All Infinihost III | x86_64, x86 | IPoIB, HP-MPI, IT-API |
| IBM AIX | AIX 5.3 | Cisco 1X IB adapter for IBM Blade Center | x86_64, x86 | MPI, IPoIB and RDS |
| SBS Technologies/ Metromatics | Add on package for Wind River VxWorks | Memory-based PCI-X InfiniHost III adapters | IPoIB, SDP, SRP Initiator and Target | |
| MLNX_ESX_OFED | VMWare Infrastructure 3 Version 3.5 | All InfiniHost III & ConnectX | x86_64, x86 | OFED 1.2.5 base Driver (mthca, mlx4, core), IPoIB, SRP Initiator. |
| VMWare Infrastructure 3 Version 3.5 (U1) | All InfiniHost III & ConnectX | x86_64, x86 | OFED 1.2.5 base Driver (mthca, mlx4, core), IPoIB, SRP Initiator | |
| Novell - XEN | SLES 10, SLERT based XEN hypervisor support. Guest OS Support: SLES 10, RHEL 5 | InfiniHost III | x86_64, x86 | OFED 1.2 base Driver (mthca), IPoIB |
| MLNX_EN | RHEL 4 U4,U5,U6,U7 RHEL 5,RHEL5 U1,U2, SLES10,SLES 10 SP1,SP2 Kernel.org 2.6.24, 2.6.25.9 (or later versions) | ConnectX EN | x86_64, x86 | 1.3.0:Stateless offload, LSO, RSS, Adaptive Interrupt moderation, HW Multicast filtering , Promiscuous mode, MAC & VLAN Priority based traffic steering. Ethtool based performance Optimization, HA/Teaming, VLAN Tx/Rx acceleration, Multi-core NAPI support, Fibre Channel over Ethernet |
| MLNX_EN (FCoE) | RHEL 5 SLES10 SP12.6.16.46-0.12-smp,SP2 2.6.16.60-0.21-smp Kernel.org: 2.6.24 | ConnectX EN | x86_64, x86 | 1.3.0: Supports all EN features plus Complete hardware offload of FC exchanges (SCSI operations) Hardware offload of FC-CRC calculations Zero copy FC stack |
| MTNIC_Win | Windows Server 2003(SNP), NDIS 5.2 | ConnectX EN | x86_64, x86 | 1.0.1:Stateless offload, LSO, RSS, Interrupt moderation, Multicast, Promiscuous mode, VLAN support |
| MTNIC_BSD | FreeBSD 6.3 & 7.0 | ConnectX EN | x86_64 | 1.0.0:Stateless offload, LSO, RSS, Interrupt moderation, Multicast, Promiscuous mode, VLAN support |
| MTNIC_ESX_MTNIC | VMware ESX 3.5 (U1) and VirtualCenter 2.5 VI support | ConnectX EN | x86_64, x86 | 1.6.10 MTNIC Base driver, NetQueue, TSO, RSS, LRO, MAC, VLAN, 802.1p priority based filtering, 802.1q tags stripping |
| XenE_MTNIC | XenServer v4.1 (Citrix XenServer) | ConnectX EN | x86_64, x86 | 1.6.0 MTNIC Base driver (XenE_MTNIC1.0) Stateless offload, LSO, RSS, Interrupt moderation, Multicast, Promiscuous mode, MAC & VLAN Priority based traffic steering. Ethtool based performance Optimization, HA/Teaming |
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