10 Operating systems and virtualization
The Dell PowerEdge R220 supports a wide range of industry-standard operating systems and
virtualization software.
Supported operating systems
Table 16 lists the primary operating systems supported on the R220. For the latest information on
supported operating systems, see
Operating systems
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
2
RHEL 6.1 is the minimum supported version. Current factory install is RHEL 6.4.
Supported virtualization
Table 17 highlights the virtualization support for the R220.
Operating systems
VMware
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
(with Hyper-V enabled)
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R3
(with Hyper-V enabled)
Dell PowerEdge R220 Technical Guide
Dell.com/OSsupport.
Primary operating systems support
2
vSphere v5.1U2
vSphere v5.5
Platform
x64
x64
x64
X86, x64
X86, x64
Virtualization support
Install version
ESXi
ESXi
X64, Standard
X64, Standard
Edition
Standard
Foundation
Web
Standard
Foundation
Essentials
Standard
Foundation
Essentials
N/A
N/A
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