Managed hardware components
Bare Metal Orchestrator manages these hardware components:
Servers
Bare Metal Orchestrator is validated to work with the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9 (iDRAC9) on validated Dell PowerEdge servers. Bare Metal Orchestrator is also validated to work with HPE iLO and Supermicro servers models listed in this section. For more information about supported adapters and other component information, see the Bare Metal Orchestrator Command Line Interface User's Guide.
The following table describes the validated Dell PowerEdge 16th generation servers:
Validated models | Supported BIOS versions | Supported iDRAC firmware versions |
PowerEdge R660 Rack Server | 1.3.2 | 7.00.00.00 |
PowerEdge R760 Rack Server | 1.3.2 | 7.00.00.00 |
PowerEdge XR 8620T Rack Server | 1.1.3 | 6.10.89.00 |
PowerEdge XR 5610 Rack Server | 1.1.4 | 6.10.91.00 |
The following table describes the validated Dell PowerEdge 15th generation servers:
Validated models | Supported BIOS versions | Supported iDRAC firmware versions |
PowerEdge R6515 Rack Server1 | 2.3.6 1.9.2 | 5.00.10.20 5.10.30.00 6.10.80.00 |
PowerEdge XE2420 Edge Server | 2.12.3 1.9.2 | |
PowerEdge XR12 Rack Server2 | 1.3.8 1.9.2 1.0.2 | |
PowerEdge R650 Rack Server | 1.3.8 1.9.2 1.10.2 | 5.00.10.20 5.10.30.00 6.10.80.00 7.00.00.00 |
PowerEdge R750 Rack Server | 1.3.8 1.0.2 1.6.5 1.8.23 1.9.2 1.10.2 | 5.00.10.20 5.10.30.00 6.00.30.00 6.10.00.00 6.10.30.004 6.10.80.00 7.00.00.00 |
PowerEdge XR11 Rack Serverb |
The following table describes the validated Supermicro and HPE servers:
Validated models | Supported firmware versions |
Supermicro SYS-1019P-FRN2T | 01.73.12 or higher |
HPE DL325 Gen 10 Plus | 2.72 |
HPE ProLiant e910t | 2.65 |
Managed system storage
The HPE Smart Array P408i-a storage controller is validated to work with Bare Metal Orchestrator. RAID types 0, 1, 5, and 10 are supported.
The following table lists the Dell RAID controllers and supported RAID types that Bare Metal Orchestrator is validated to manage on Dell PowerEdge servers:
Validated RAID Controllers | Supported RAID types |
Single PowerEdge PERC H730P | RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 |
Single PowerEdge PERC H740P | |
Single PowerEdge PERC H755 | |
Single PowerEdge PERC H745 Front (Embedded) | |
Single PowerEdge PERC H750 Adapter5 |
Switches
The following table describes the validated Dell switches and includes the supported network operating system (NOS) and firmware versions:
Validated models | Supported NOS versions | Supported firmware version |
Dell PowerSwitch S5232F-ON | 10.5.2.0 to 10.5.3.4 | onie-firmware-x86_64-dellemc_s5200_c3538-r0.3.40.5.1-20 |
Dell PowerSwitch S5248F-ON | ||
Dell PowerSwitch S5212F-ON | ||
Dell PowerSwitch S5224F-ON |
Bare Metal Orchestrator is validated to work with the following Cisco switch model:
- Cisco Nexus 9396PX version NX-OS 7.0(3)I5(2)
Supported hypervisors and operating systems
You can install these hypervisors and operating systems on servers managed by Bare Metal Orchestrator.
Hypervisor or operating system | Versions |
openSUSE | Leap 15.3 (openSUSE-Leap-15.3-3-DVD-x86_64-Build38.1-Media.iso) |
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® | 8.4 (rhel-8.4-x86_64-dvd.iso) 8.6 (rhel-8.6-x86_64-dvd.iso) |
Ubuntu | 20.04 LTS (ubuntu-20.04.6-live-server-amd64.iso) |
VMware ESXi (hypervisor) | 7.0 u1, 7.0 u2, and 7.0 u3 |
Wind River® Cloud Platform host operating system | 21.05-b58 (wind-river-cloud-platform-host-installer-21.05-b58.iso) |
The following operating systems are supported for Bare Metal Orchestrator worker nodes.
Operating system | Versions |
Debian | 11 |
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® | 8.6 |
Ubuntu Server | 20.04 LTS |