Supported Virtualization; Table 25. Virtual Guest Operating System Support; Table 26. Virtualization Support - Dell PowerEdge R720 Technical Manual

Support of the operating systems listed in Table 25 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 25.
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 2003
Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 with SP2
1
Not validated for use with AMD

Supported virtualization

One of the key features for virtualization on the R720 and R720xd is the support for a failsafe
hypervisor. By running the 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 26 highlights the virtualization support for the R720 and R720xd.
Operating systems
vSphere v4.1 U3
vSphere v4.1 U3
vSphere v4.1 U3
VMware
vSphere v5.0
vSphere v5.0 U1
vSphere v5.1
2
Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization 3.1
Citrix XenServer v6.1
FI = factory install; DIB = drop in box
1
v4.1 U3 image is available from support.dell.com, either as an upgrade to v4.1 U2 or for a clean install
2
No OpenManage support; drop- in- box license registration card only
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1
1
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GPUs
Table 26. Virtualization support
Install version
ESX Classic
ESXi Installable
ESXi Embedded
ESXi
ESXi (one version)
ESXi (one version)
N/A
N/A
Platform Edition
x86 Web
Standard
x86
Enterprise
Standard
x64 Enterprise
Data center
Factory
options
DIB
DIB
FI (v4.1 U2)
DIB
DIB
DIB
DIB
DIB
Internal dual SD
module install
support
No
No
1
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No