Dell PowerEdge M520 - 9 Operating Systems and Virtualization; Supported Operating Systems; Table 16. Primary Operating System Support; Table 17. Virtual Guest Operating System Support

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9 Operating systems and virtualization
The Dell PowerEdge M520 system supports a wide range of industry-standard operating systems
and virtualization software.
Supported operating systems
Table 16 lists the operating systems supported on the M520. For the latest information on supported
operating systems, see Dell.com/OSsupport.
Table 16. Primary operating system support
Operating System
Platform
Edition
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
1
x32
x64
N/A
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
2
x64
N/A
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Node
x64
N/A
SUSE
®
Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
x64
N/A
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
x64
N/A
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
x64
Standard
Data center
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with SP2
x86
Standard
Enterprise
x64
(with Microsoft
Hyper-V role
enabled)
Standard
Enterprise
Data center
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1
x64
(with Microsoft
Hyper-V role
enabled)
Standard
Enterprise
Data center
HPC
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.
Support of the operating systems listed in Table 17 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 17. Virtual guest operating system support
Operating System
Platform
Edition
Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 with SP2
x86
Standard
Enterprise
x64 (with Microsoft Hyper-V
role enabled)
Standard
Enterprise
Data center
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