Operating Systems And Virtualization; Supported Operating Systems; Table 16. Primary Operating System Support - Dell PowerEdge M420 Technical Manual

9 Operating systems and virtualization

The Dell PowerEdge M420 supports a wide range of industry-standard operating systems and
virtualization software.

Supported operating systems

Table 16 lists the operating systems supported on the M420. For the latest information on supported
operating systems, see
Operating System
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Node
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with SP2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1
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RHEL 6.3 is the minimum supported version. Current factory install is RHEL 6.1.
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.
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Table 16. Primary operating system support

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Platform Edition
x64 N/A
x64 N/A
x64 N/A
x64 N/A
Standard
x64
Data center
x64
Standard
(with Microsoft
Hyper-V role Data center
enabled)
Standard
x86
Enterprise
x64
Standard
(with Microsoft
Enterprise
Hyper-V role
Data center
enabled)
Standard
x64
Enterprise
(with Microsoft
Hyper-V role Data center
enabled)
HPC