Specifications

42 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720 and R720xd support a wide range of industry-standard operating
systems and virtualization software.
Table 24 lists the primary operating systems supported on the R720 and R720xd. For the latest
information on supported operating systems, see Dell.com/OSsupport.
Operating System
Platform
Edition
Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux
®
5.7
x32
x64
N/A
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
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
1
x64
Standard
Premium add-on
Microsoft Windows Server
®
2008
with SP2
x86
Web
Standard
Enterprise
x64
(with Microsoft
Hyper-V™ role
enabled)
Web
Standard
Enterprise
Datacenter
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
with SP1
x64
(with Hyper-V
role enabled)
Web
Standard
Enterprise
Datacenter
HPC
1
Not validated for use with GPUs