Specifications

The Dell PowerEdge R420 supports a wide range of industry-standard operating systems and
virtualization software.
Table 20 lists the primary operating systems supported on the R420. 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 for HPC
X64
N/A
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
x64
N/A
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
x64
N/A
Microsoft Windows Small Business
Server 2011
x64
Standard
Premium Add-on
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
R2 with SP1
x64
(with Hyper-V
role enabled)
Web
Standard
Enterprise
Datacenter
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.