Specifications

30 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide
The Dell PowerEdge M820 supports a wide range of industry-standard operating systems and
virtualization software.
Table 17 lists the operating systems supported on the M820. For the latest information on supported
operating systems, see Dell.com/OSsupport.
Operating System
Platform
Edition
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
1
x32
x64
N/A
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
2
x64
N/A
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
2
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
Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1
x64
(with Microsoft
Hyper-V role
enabled)
Web
Standard
Enterprise
Data center
HPC
Foundation
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 6.2.
Support of the operating systems listed in Table 18 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
Data center