Users Guide
Prerequisites for installing the DSU
This section lists the specic prerequisites for installing DSU.
NOTE: You must have administrator privileges if DSU is installed on the supported Microsoft Windows operating system.
NOTE: you must have root/super user permission if DSU is installed on the supported Linux operating system
Topics:
• Supported hardware
• Supported Operating Systems
Supported hardware
DSU is supported on 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th generation of Dell's PowerEdge servers.
For more information on supported hardware for Linux Operating Systems, see linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/
omsa.html#Supported_Hardware.
Supported Operating Systems
This section describes the list of supported Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
For more information on supported RHEL/SLES Operating Systems, see linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/
omsa.html#Supported_Operating_Systems.
NOTE
: Community distros such as Fedora, CentOS, and openSUSE are not tested with this repository. Since most of the kernel
drivers in this repository are in Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) format, community distros may work.
Starting DSU 1.4.0, the following Microsoft Windows Operating Systems are supported:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016
Support for Ubuntu operating systems
Starting DSU 1.4, support for Ubuntu operating systems is pre-enabled and the support is limited. All the DSU commands may function as
usual without any issues.
For more information on the catalog that has the updates for Ubuntu operating system, see https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/ubuntu/
catalog/ .
NOTE
: Support for Ubuntu is pre-enabled only on 12th,13th, and 14th generation of PowerEdge systems.
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