Dell DR4000 - Manual (Page 10)

Dell DR Series System Interoperability Guide, Release 3.1.2 | 10
Supported Virtual Environments for DR2000v
This section lists the supported virtual environments for the Dell DR2000v.
NOTE: At least one physical DR Series system is required to act as the License Server for
DR2000v. To register the DR2000v successfully, version 3.1 or later of the DR Series
software is required to be loaded on the physical DR Series system.
Available Capacities and OS Support
Platform 1TB 2TB 4TB
ESXi 5.0 Yes Yes N/A
ESXi 5.1 Yes Yes N/A
ESXi 5.5* Yes Yes Yes
Hyper-V 2008 R2 Yes Yes N/A
Hyper-V 2012 R2 Yes Yes Yes
Hyper-V 2012 Yes Yes Yes
* The ESXi 5.5 version is VM hardware 10 based. This means you must use the Web client, not the vSphere client.
Resource Requirements
Following are the minimum resource requirements for DR2000v.
Platform Disk Capacity Virtual Network
Interface Card
(At least e1000) # of
CPUs RAM
ESXi 5.0, 5.1 1TB, 2TB 2x1Gig 4 8GB
ESXi 5.5 1TB, 2TB, 4TB 2x1Gig 4 8GB
Hyper-V 2008
R2 1TB, 2TB 2x1Gig 4 8GB
Hyper-V 2012
R2/2012 1TB, 2TB, 4TB 2x1Gig 4 8GB
DR2000v Expansion Unit Limits
Expansion units and disk capacity expansion are not supported on the DR2000v.