31 PowerEdge M420 Technical Guide
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 Dell.com/OSsupport.
Table 16. Primary operating system support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Node
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with SP2
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 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.
Table 17. Virtual guest operating system support
Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 with SP2
Standard
Enterprise
Data center web
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