Specifications

45 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide
Support of the operating systems listed in Table 25 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
1
x86
Web
Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 with SP2
1
x86
Standard
Enterprise
x64
Standard
Enterprise
Data center
1
Not validated for use with AMD
®
GPUs
One of the key features for virtualization on the R720 and R720xd is the support for a failsafe
hypervisor. By running the 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 26 highlights the virtualization support for the R720 and R720xd.
Operating systems
Version
Options
VMware
1
vSphere v4.1 U2
ESX Classic
DIB
vSphere v4.1 U2
ESXi Installable
DIB
vSphere v4.1 U2
ESXi Embedded
FI
vSphere v5.0
ESXi (one version)
DIB
vSphere v5.0 U1
ESXi (one version)
FI/DIB
vSphere v5.1
ESXi (one version)
DIB
Red Hat
2
Enterprise Virtualization 3.0
N/A
DIB
Citrix
XenServer v6.0
N/A
DIB
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.