Specifications

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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 Dell.com/OSsupport.
Operating System
Platform
Edition
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
1
x64
N/A
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Node
x64
N/A
SUSE
®
Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
x64
N/A
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
x64
N/A
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
with SP2
x86
Standard
Enterprise
x64
(with Microsoft
Hyper-V™ role
enabled)
Standard
Enterprise
Datacenter
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
with SP1
x64
(with Microsoft
Hyper-V role
enabled)
Standard
Enterprise
Datacenter
HPC
1
RHEL 6.2 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
Platform
Edition
Microsoft Windows 2003
x86
Web
Microsoft Windows 2003 R2
with SP2
x86
Standard
Enterprise
x64
Standard
Enterprise
Datacenter