Users Guide

• PCIe, Mezzanine, and Network Interface Cards.
Supported operating systems for USB NIC
The operating systems supported for USB NIC are:
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Windows Server 2008 SP2 (64-bit)
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (64-bit)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (64-bit)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
• RHEL 5.9 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• RHEL 6.4
• RHEL 6.7
• vSphere v5.0 U2 ESXi
• vSphere v5.1 U3
• vSphere v5.1 U1 ESXi
• vSphere v5.5 ESXi
• vSphere v5.5 U3
• vSphere 6.0
• vSphere 6.0 U1
• CentOS 6.5
• CentOS 7.0
• Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04.04 LTS
• Debian 7.6 (Wheezy)
• Debian 8.0
On servers with Windows 2008 SP2 64-bit operating system, the iDRAC Virtual CD USB Device is not
discovered automatically (or enabled). You must enable this manually. For more information, see steps
recommended by Microsoft to manually update the Remote Network Driver Interface Specification
(RNDIS) driver for this device.
For Linux operating systems, configure the USB NIC as DHCP on the host operating system before
enabling USB NIC.
If the operating system on the host is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, CentOS 6.5, CentOS 7.0, Ubuntu
14.04.1 LTS, or Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS then after enabling the USB NIC in iDRAC, you must manually enable
DHCP client on the host operating system. For information to enable DHCP, see the documents for SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server, CentOS, and Ubuntu operating systems.
For vSphere, you must install the VIB file before enabling USB NIC.
For the following operating systems, if you install the Avahi and nss-mdns packages, then you can use
https://idrac.local to launch the iDRAC from the host operating system. If these packages are not
installed, use https://169.254.0.1 to launch the iDRAC.
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