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The Dell PowerEdge M420 supports a wide range of industry-standard operating systems and
virtualization software.
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 6.3
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
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.
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 with SP2
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Platform Edition
x64 N/A
x64 N/A
x64 N/A
x64 N/A
Standard
X64
Data center
Standard
x86
Enterprise
x64
Standard
(with Microsoft
Enterprise
Hyper-V role
Data center
enabled)
x64 Standard
(with Microsoft Enterprise
Hyper-V role Data center
enabled) HPC
Platform Edition
Standard
x86
Enterprise
Standard
x64 Enterprise
Data center web