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Physical Storage
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Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
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Thin provisioning volume.
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Fibre Channel (FC) disks such as
qla2xxx, lpfc, bnx2fc, and bfa.
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An
iSCSI software-configured logical device on a networked storage server.
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The
mdraid subsystem as a software RAID solution.
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Hardware RAID such as
smartpqi, hpsa, megaraid, mpt3sas, aacraid, and mpi3mr.
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SCSI and SATA disks.
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iSCSI and HBA offloads.
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Hardware
FCoE such as qla2xxx and lpfc.
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Software
FCoE such as bnx2fc. For software FCoE to function, additional memory configuration might be required.
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BIOS RAID.
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Software
iSCSI with iBFT. Currently supported transports are bnx2i, cxgb3i, and cxgb4i.
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Software iSCSI with hybrid device driver such as
be2iscsi.
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Fibre Channel over Ethernet (
FCoE).
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Legacy IDE.
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GlusterFS servers.
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GFS2 file system.
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Clustered Logical Volume Manager (CLVM).
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High availability LVM volumes (HA-LVM).
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Network
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Hardware using kernel modules such as
igb, ixgbe, ice, i40e, e1000e, igc, tg3, bnx2x, bnxt_en, qede, cxgb4, be2net, enic, sfc, mlx4_en, mlx5_core, r8169, atlantic, nfp, and nicvf on 64-bit ARM architecture only.
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Hardware using kernel modules such as
sfc SRIOV, cxgb4vf, and pch_gbe.
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IPv6 protocol.
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Wireless connections.
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InfiniBand networks.
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VLAN network over bridge and team.
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Hypervisor
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Kernel-based virtual machines (KVM).
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Xen hypervisor in certain configurations only.
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ESXi 6.6, 6.7, 7.0.
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Hyper-V 2012 R2 on RHEL Gen1 UP Guest only and later version.
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Filesystem
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The ext[234]fs, XFS, virtiofs, and NFS file systems.
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The Btrfs file system.
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Firmware
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BIOS-based systems.
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UEFI Secure Boot.
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