Supported Virtualization; Table 17. Virtual Guest Operating System Support; Table 18. Virtualization Support - Dell PowerEdge M420 Technical Manual

Table 17.
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 with SP2

Supported virtualization

One of the key features for virtualization on the M420 is the support for a fail-safe 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 18
highlights the virtualization support for the M420.
Operating systems
vSphere v5.1
VMware vSphere v5.1 U1
vSphere v5.1
Citrix XenServer v6.1
1
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization v3.2
FI = factory install; DIB = drop-in-box
1
No OpenManage support; drop-in-box license registration card only
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Table 18. Virtualization support
Install version
ESXi 5.5
ESXi 5.5
ESXi 5.5
N/A
N/A
Platform Edition
Standard
x86
Enterprise
Standard
x64 Enterprise
Data center web
Factory
options
DIB
FI/DIB
FI/DIB
DIB
DIB
Internal dual
SD module
install support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No