Users Guide

Support Matrix

This section lists the hardware, Operating Systems and PowerEdge Servers required for installing DSU.

Topics:

• Supported hardware

• Supported Operating Systems

Supported hardware

DSU supports iDRAC7, iDRAC8 and iDRAC9 based Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.

NOTE: To install through iDRAC on iDRAC9 based PowerEdge Servers, minimum version of iDRAC 3.30.30.30 and later

is required

NOTE: DSU 1.8 does not support remote update through iDRAC7and iDRAC8

Supported Operating Systems

This section describes the list of supported Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

NOTE:

Community distros such as Fedora, CentOS, and open SUSE are not tested with Dell Linux repository. Since

most of the kernel drivers in the Dell Linux repository are in Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) format,

community distros may work.

The following Microsoft Windows Operating Systems are supported:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

• Microsoft Windows Server 2016

• Microsoft Windows Server 2019

The following Ubuntu Operating Systems are supported:

• Ubuntu 18.04.04

For more information on the catalog that has the updates for Ubuntu operating system, see https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/

ubuntu/catalog/

The following Linux Operating Systems are supported:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 (x86_64)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 (x86_64)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 (x86_64)

NOTE: The remote feature of DSU is not supported on RHEL 8.1 operating system.

Prerequisites for installing on remote systems

The following protocols are used for connecting to a remote system:

• Enable SSH protocol on Linux operating system.

• Ensure that you have administrator or root privileges..

• Ensure that the WMI services are running.

• Install dependant Operating System libraries for Linux.

• Enable Redfish for iDRAC. For more information, see the latest iDRAC9 Users Guide.

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