Dell PowerEdge R820 - 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 R820 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 R820. 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 6.2 for HPC
x64
N/A
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
x64
N/A
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
x64
N/A
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
x64
Standard
Data center
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
x64
(with Hyper-V
role enabled)
Standard
Data center
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2
x86
Web
Standard
Enterprise
x64
(with Hyper-V
role enabled)
Web
Standard
Enterprise
Data center
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1
x64
(with Hyper-V
role enabled)
Web
Standard
Enterprise
Data center
HPC
Foundation
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.