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.
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.
The following Microsoft Windows Operating Systems are supported:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016
The following Linux Operating Systems are supported:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 (x86_64)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 (x86_64)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12SP3 (x86_64)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (x86_64)
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.
• Ubuntu 18.04.1
For more information on the catalog that has the updates for Ubuntu operating system, see https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/ubuntu/
catalog/ .
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