Operating Systems And Virtualization; Supported Operating Systems; Table 16. Primary Operating System Support; Table 17. Virtual Guest Operating System Support - Dell PowerEdge M520 Technical Manual

9 Operating systems and virtualization

The Dell PowerEdge M520 system supports a wide range of industry-standard operating systems
and virtualization software.

Supported operating systems

Table 16 lists the operating systems supported on the M520. 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 for HPC Compute Node
®
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with SP2
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 17 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 17.
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 with SP2
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Dell.com/OSsupport.
Table 16. Primary operating system support
1
2
Virtual guest operating system support
Platform
x32
x64
x64
x64
x64
x64
x64
x86
x64
(with Microsoft
Hyper-V role
enabled)
x64
(with Microsoft
Hyper-V role
enabled)
Platform
x86
x64 (with Microsoft Hyper-V
role enabled)
Edition
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Standard
Data center
Standard
Enterprise
Standard
Enterprise
Data center
Standard
Enterprise
Data center
HPC
Edition
Standard
Enterprise
Standard
Enterprise
Data center
Web