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Operating systems available for automatic installation on dedicated servers

Automatic installation

Servers.com offers a set of operating systems for automatic installation and re-installation on bare metal servers (you will find the list below). Automatic OS installation and re-installation can be ordered during the initial server configuration or later in the customer portal.

The following operating systems for the x64 architecture are available for automatic installation and re-installation on bare metal servers:

  • CentOS 8-Stream, CentOS 9-Stream (64bit)

  • AlmaLinux 8, 9 (64 bit)

  • Rocky Linux 8, 9 (64 bit)

  • Debian 10, 11, 12 (64 bit)

  • Proxmox 7, 8 (64 bit)

  • FreeBSD 13 (64 bit)

  • Ubuntu server 20.04, 22.04 (64 bit)

  • VMware ESXI 7, 8 (64 bit)

  • Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022 (Datacenter / Standard edition) (64 bit)

Installation from a custom image

You can boot a custom OS image and install an operating system of your choice using your Dell server's out-of-band management platform – iDRAC. Please refer to the "How to boot a dedicated server into a custom OS image using iDRAC" article for instructions.

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