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Fault Tolerance and Windows Server 2008 R2

I have been reading the vSphere availability guide vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-501-availability-guide.pdf.

On page 45 it states:

The combination of the virtual machine's guest operating system and processor must be supported by
Fault Tolerance (for example, 32-bit Solaris on AMD-based processors is not currently supported). See the
VMware knowledge base article at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008027 for information on supported
combinations of processors and guest operating systems.

When I visit http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008027 I only see Windows Server 2008 listed, not R2. Am I to assume that "Windows Server 2008" covers server 2008 (32bit and 64bit) along with 2008 R2? I see there is a Windows Server 2003 (32bit and 64bit) but no Windows Server 2003 R2.

I know it seems obvious that R2 would be included under the Server 2008 umbrella however these are vastly different OS's. For example with Server 2003 and Server 2003 R2 the service packs work for both versions. However with Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 they are completely different service packs.

I just wanted to get some confirmation before I steam roll ahead and implement fault tolerance only to discover that I am running unsupported guest OS's.

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FT works fine with both Windows 20003 and 2008 R2 releases, and AFAIK are fully supported.