Operating Systems And Virtualization; Supported Operating Systems; Table 24. Primary Operating System Support - Dell PowerEdge R720 Technical Manual

10 Operating systems and virtualization

The Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd support a wide range of industry-standard operating systems
and virtualization software.

Supported operating systems

Table 24 lists the primary operating systems supported on the R720 and R720xd. 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 Server 2012 R2
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011
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.
3
Not validated for use with GPUs.
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Table 24. Primary operating system support
1
2
Dell.com/OSsupport.
Platform
x32
x64
x64
x64
x64
x64
x64
x64
(with Microsoft
Hyper-V role enabled)
3
x64
x86
x64
(with Microsoft
Hyper-V role enabled)
x64
(with Hyper-V role
enabled)
Edition
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Standard
Data center
Standard
Data center
Standard
Premium add-on
Web
Standard
Enterprise
Web
Standard
Enterprise
Data center
Web
Standard
Enterprise
Data center
HPC