Dell PowerEdge R420 - 10 Operating Systems and Virtualization; Supported Operating Systems; Table 20. Primary Operating System Support

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10 Operating systems and virtualization
The Dell PowerEdge R420 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 R420. For the latest information on
supported operating systems, see Dell.com/OSsupport
.
Table 20. 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 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 Small Business Server 2011 x64
Standard
Premium Add- on
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1
x64
(with Hyper- V
role enabled)
Web
Standard
Enterprise
Datacenter
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.