Supported Virtualization; Table 21. Virtual Guest Operating System Support; Table 22. Virtualization Support - Dell PowerEdge R820 Technical Manual

Support of the operating systems listed in Table 21 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.
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 2003
Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 with SP2

Supported virtualization

One of the key features for virtualization on the PowerEdge R820 is the support for a fail-safe
hypervisor. By running a hypervisor on an optional SD card and installing a backup copy on the
other mirrored SD card, you can protect against hardware failure and maximize virtualization uptime.
Table 22 highlights the virtualization support for the R820.
Operating systems
vSphere v5.0
vSphere v5.0 U1
VMware vSphere v5.1 U1
vSphere v5.1
vSphere v5.5
Citrix XenServer 6.1
1
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1
FI = factory install; DIB = drop in box
1
No OpenManage support; drop-in-box license registration card only
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Table 21. Virtual guest operating system support
Table 22. Virtualization support
Platform
x86
x86
x64
Install version
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
N/A
N/A
Edition
Web
Standard
Enterprise
Standard
Enterprise
Data center
Internal dual SD
Factory
module install
options
support
DIB Yes
DIB Yes
DIB Yes
DIB Yes
DIB Yes
DIB Yes
DIB No