Dell PowerEdge R515: Supported Operating Systems

Supported Operating Systems: Dell PowerEdge R515

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Getting Started With Your System

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Supported Operating Systems

NOTE: 

For twelve–hard-drive systems with additional internal hard drives, it is 

recommended that you install the operating system on the internal hard drives 

in a RAID 1 configuration.

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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 Web, Standard, and Enterprise (x86) 

Editions

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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 Web, Standard, Enterprise, 

and Datacenter (x64) Editions

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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Web, Standard, Enterprise, 

and Datacenter (x64) Editions

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Windows Small Business Server 2008 R2 (x64) Standard and 

Premium Editions

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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 HPC (x64) Edition

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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 HPC (x64) Edition

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 Standard (x86_64), 

Advanced Platform (x86_64), and HPC Editions

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (x86_64)

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 (x86_64)

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VMware ESX 4.0 Update 2 Classic Edition

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VMware ESXi 4.0 Update 2 Installable Edition

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VMware ESX 4.1 Classic Edition

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VMware ESXi 4.1 Installable Edition

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Citrix XenServer 5.6 Enterprise Edition

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Microsoft Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 R2 (stand-alone)

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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V role

NOTE: 

For the latest information on supported operating systems, 

see

support.dell.com

.