I'll be contacting Dell as well with this question but I was wondering if anyone has had any experience installing Windows 2000 Server on a new Dell Rack server? I'm looking at either the Dell Poweredge series. Either a R410, R610, or R710.
Additionally, virtualization is not an option as Hyper-V cannot assign more than one virtual core to a Win2000 VM. I really just need to know if this is possible or not.
I think the problem you're likely to run into is with drivers, most probably the RAID controller and NIC drivers. My suggestion would be to take a look at the available drivers for those models at http://support.dell.com and see if W2K drivers are available.