Specifications

30 PowerEdge M620 Technical Guide
9 Operating systems and virtualization
The Dell PowerEdge M620 supports a wide range of industry-standard operating systems and
virtualization software.
Supported operating systems
Table 17 lists the operating systems supported on the M620. For the latest information on supported
operating systems, see Dell.com/OSsupport.
Table 17. Primary operating system support
Operating System
Platform
Edition
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
1
x32
x64
N/A
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
2
x64
N/A
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC
Compute Node
x64
N/A
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
x64
N/A
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
x64
N/A
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
X64
Standard
Data center
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
x64
(with Microsoft
Hyper-V role
enabled)
Standard
Data center
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2
x86
Standard
Enterprise
x64
(with Microsoft
Hyper-V role
enabled)
Standard
Enterprise
Data center
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1
x64
(with Microsoft
Hyper-V role
enabled)
Standard
Enterprise
Data center
HPC
1
RHEL 5.7 is the minimum supported version. Current drop in box option is RHEL 5.8.
2
RHEL 6.1 is the minimum supported version. Current factory install is RHEL 6.3.