m81KR cNA adapter with vsphere 5.5

[Dragomir]

is the m81KR cna adaptre not compatible with esxi 5.5? I look at the compatibility matrix and did not mention anthing about this card on esxi 5.5

for firmware 2.2(1)

any idea?

[Marcin Latosiewicz]

Tony, 

Typically this might also depend on server you're running. 

The interoperability tool is pretty accurate and you can always confirm with:

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/interoperability/matrix/r_hcl_B_rel2-21.pdf

and 

http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html

Looks like from CNA only M73KR -E and -Q are supported ( plus VM-FEX and VICs). 

M.

[skarthic]

Hi all,

With UCSM at 2.2 based release, you can still have your server & adapter firmware at 2.1.3 with B200M2 and M81KR running ESXi5.5 and ESXi5.5U1.

This has been already tested and shown in the interop matrix

http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html

This is a supported combination

Thanks,

Karthic

[Dragomir]

hi

I am running b200m2 wih the m81kr card

I am stuck with this hardware but I need to upgrade to esxi 5.5 

It looks like its not suppported but just wanted to see if anyone is running this configuration.

esxi 5.5 on b200m2 with M81KR

[navery]

I'm running vmware 5.5 with firmware 2.2(1c) and a M81KR NIC.  Booting is with local storage, so I can't confirm if this will work with features like boot from SAN.