Users Guide

VMware vSphere ESXi Windows Server SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
(SLES)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Server (RHEL)
Essentials, and Standard
editions)
ESXi 5.5 U3 Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
and 64-bit
SLES 11 SP4 64-bit RHEL 7.1 64-bit
ESXi 5.5 U2 Microsoft Windows Server 2008
SP1
RHEL 7.0 64-bit
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
R2
RHEL 6.7 64-bit
Table 6. Supported operating systems for Dell Servers
VMware vSphere ESXi Windows Server SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
(SLES)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Server (RHEL)
ESXi 6.0 U1 Windows Server 2012 R2
(Datacenter, Foundation,
Essentials, and Standard
editions)
SLES 12 64-bit RHEL 7.2 64-bit
ESXi 6.0 Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Essentials
SLES 11 SP4 64-bit) RHEL 7.1 64-bit
ESXi 5.5 U3 Windows Essential Business
Server 2008 SP1
RHEL 7.0 64-bit
ESXi 5.5 U2 Windows Essential Business
Server 2008 SP1
RHEL 6.7 64-bit
ESXi 5.5 Windows Server 2008 SP2 32-
bit and 64-bit
RHEL 6.5 64-bit
ESXi 5.1 U3 Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit RHEL 6.2 64-bit
ESXi 5.1 U2 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
64-bit
RHEL 6.0 64-bit
ESXi 5.1 U1 Windows Server 2008 R1 and R2
(HPC Edition)
RHEL 5.9 64-bit and 32-bit
ESXi 5.1 Windows Storage Server 2008
SP2
RHEL 5.5 64-bit and 32-bit
ESXi 5.0 U3 Windows Small Business Server
2008 SP2
RHEL 5.3 64-bit and 32-bit
ESXi 5.0 U2 Windows Small Business Server
2008 R2
RHEL 5.0 64-bit and 32-bit
ESXi 5.0 U1 Microsoft Windows Small
Business Server 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Windows Small Business Server
2003 R2 SP2
Windows Server 2003 R2 32-bit
and 64-bit
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