Operating Systems And Virtualization; Supported Operating Systems; Table 20. Primary Operating System Support - Dell PowerEdge R420 Technical Manual

10 Operating systems and virtualization

The Dell PowerEdge R420 supports a wide range of industry- standard operating systems and
virtualization software.

Supported operating systems

Table 20 lists the primary operating systems supported on the R420. 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
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011
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.
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Table 20. Primary operating system support
1
2
Platform Edition
x32
N/A
x64
x64 N/A
X64 N/A
x64 N/A
x64 N/A
Standard
X64
Data center
Standard
x64
Premium Add- on
Web
x64
Standard
(with Hyper- V
Enterprise
role enabled)
Datacenter