10 Operating Systems And Virtualization; Supported Operating Systems; Supported Virtualization; Table 25. Operating System Support - Dell PowerEdge R730 Technical Manual

10 Operating systems and virtualization

The Dell PowerEdge R730 and R730xd support a wide range of industry-standard operating systems
and virtualization software.

Supported operating systems

Table 25 lists the primary operating systems supported on the R730 and R730xd. For the latest
information on supported operating systems, see
Operating System
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 SP2
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

Supported virtualization

One of the key features for virtualization on the R730 and R730xd 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 R730 and R730xd.
Operating systems
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V
VMware vSphere v5.1, v5.5
Citrix XenServer 6.2 SP1
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Table 25. Operating system support
Platform
x86/x64 (x64 includes
Hyper-V)
x64
x86/x64 (x64 includes
Hyper-V)
x64
x64
x64
x64
x64
x64
Table 26. Virtualization support
Edition
Standard
Datacenter
Standard
Datacenter
Standard
Enterprise
Datacenter
Standard
Enterprise
Datacenter
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Install version IDSDM support
N/A Yes
ESXi Yes
N/A Yes
IDSDM
support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No