37 PowerEdge R820 Technical Guide
Support of the operating systems listed in Table 23 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.
Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 with SP2
Standard
Enterprise
Data center
One of the key features for virtualization on the PowerEdge R820 is the support for a fail-safe
hypervisor. By running a 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 24 highlights the virtualization support for the R820.
Enterprise
Virtualization 3.0
FI = factory install; DIB = drop in box
1
vSphere Fault Tolerance is supported with these versions
2
No OpenManage support; drop in box license registration card only.
Comments to this Manuals