Operating Systems And Virtualization; Supported Operating Systems; Table 19. Primary Operating System Support - Dell PowerEdge R520 Technical Manual

10 Operating systems and virtualization

The Dell PowerEdge R520 supports a wide range of industry-standard operating systems and
virtualization software.

Supported operating systems

Table 19 lists the primary operating systems supported on the R520. For the latest information on
supported operating systems, see
Operating System
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011
1
RHEL 5.7 is the minimum supported version. Current drop in box option is RHEL 5.8.
2
RHEL 6.1 is the minimum supported version. Current factory install is RHEL 6.3.
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Table 19. Primary operating system support
1
2
Platform Edition
x32
N/A
x64
x64 N/A
x64 N/A
x64 N/A
x64 N/A
x64 N/Asas
Standard
x64
Data center
Web
x64
Standard
(with Hyper-V
Enterprise
role enabled)
Datacenter
Standard
x64
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