Operating Systems And Virtualization; Supported Operating Systems; Table 17. Primary Operating System Support; Table 18. Virtual Guest Operating System Support - Dell PowerEdge M820 Technical Manual

9 Operating systems and virtualization

The Dell PowerEdge M820 supports a wide range of industry-standard operating systems and
virtualization software.

Supported operating systems

Table 17 lists the operating systems supported on the M820. For the latest information on supported
operating systems, see
Operating System
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
Compute Node
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1
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.
Support of the operating systems listed in Table 18 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.
Table 18.
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 2003
PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide
30
Dell.com/OSsupport.
Table 17. Primary operating system support
1
2
2
for HPC
Virtual guest operating system support
Platform Edition
x32
N/A
x64
x64 N/A
x64 N/A
x64 N/A
x64 N/A
Standard
x64
Data center
x64
Standard
(with Microsoft
Enterprise
Hyper-V role
Data center
enabled)
Web
Standard
x64
Enterprise
(with Microsoft
Hyper-V role Data center
enabled)
HPC
Foundation
Platform Edition
x86 Web