Operating Systems And Virtualization; Supported Operating Systems; Table 20. Primary Operating System Support - Dell PowerEdge R820 Technical Manual

10 Operating systems and virtualization

The Dell PowerEdge R820 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 R820. 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 6.2 for HPC
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 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.
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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
x64
Standard
(with Hyper-V
Data center
role enabled)
Web
x86 Standard
Enterprise
Web
x64
Standard
(with Hyper-V
Enterprise
role enabled)
Data center
Web
Standard
x64
Enterprise
(with Hyper-V
Data center
role enabled)
HPC
Foundation