HP ProLiant DL160se G6 Server Software Configuration Guide

OS installation 39
OS installation
Supported OSes
Table 21 Supported OSes
Option Description
Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (32/64 bit)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (32/64 bit)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003—Web Edition
Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 for 64 bit
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition (32/64 bit)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (32/64 bit)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Web Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Small Business Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Windows Essential Business Server
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Embedded Systems
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 for 32 bit and AMD64/EM64T
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for 32 bit and AMD64/EM64T
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for 32 bit and AMD64/EM64T
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for 32 bit and AMD64/EM64T
Sun Solaris Sun Solaris 10 for 64 bit
Virtualization VMware ESX 4.0
Citrix XenSource
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
Xen-based virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server
OS pre-installation procedure
Perform the two pre-OS installation steps in this section before installing the OS of your choice.