Dell PowerEdge R820 Technical Manual page 37

Support of the operating systems listed in Table 23 is limited to a virtual environment as a guest
operating system. Please contact the software vendor for additional support or questions about
running the operating system in a virtualized environment.
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 2003
Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 with SP2
One of the key features for virtualization on the PowerEdge R820 is the support for a fail-safe
hypervisor. By running a hypervisor on an optional SD card and installing a backup copy on the
other mirrored SD card, you can protect against hardware failure and maximize virtualization uptime.
Table 24 highlights the virtualization support for the R820.
Operating systems
1
VMware
Citrix
2
Red Hat
FI = factory install; DIB = drop in box
1
vSphere Fault Tolerance is supported with these versions
2
No OpenManage support; drop in box license registration card only.
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Version
vSphere v4.1 U2 ESX Classic
vSphere v4.1 U2 ESXi Installable
vSphere v4.1 U2 ESXi Embedded
vSphere v5.0 ESXi (one version)
vSphere v5.0 U1 ESXi (one version)
XenServer 6.0 N/A
Enterprise
N/A
Virtualization 3.0
Platform Edition
x86 Web
Standard
x86
Enterprise
Standard
x64 Enterprise
Data center
Options
DIB
DIB
FI
FI/DIB
FI/DIB
DIB
DIB