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• On partitioning when installing ESXi

  The server does ESXi has an option to create separate partion on install?  I want to put the hypervisor on a partition of 2 GB and then leave the rest to my virtual machine.

  Also would like to know if it's a better way to increase performance on virtual machines?

  No, there is no option available when installing ESXi server partitioning.

  Make sure that you back up the data if everything is present in the system that you want to install ESXi server, because the server ESXi installation wipe the storage that you install in.

  Furthermore ESXi server does not support more than 2 TB of storage space.

  Hope this helps you.

• Lack of disks when installing ESXi 4.0 on Dell R710

  I have a Dell R710. I created a Raid 5 with some virtual disks and initialized to them. When I try to install ESXi 4.0, in the select a disk screen, it displays: Disk0, provider: iDRAC; Type: usb; Size: 0.0 B; Empty: y

  No idea what I'm missing?

  It seems that this controller is supported from ESX 4U1 (build 208xxx) - who are you installed?

  Please give points for any helpful answer.

• Initialization failed: press a button to try again... when installing ESXi ISO

  After a repair of an already open a question problem, a new question was raised.  I open another question because this problem is new, and I thought that a new question must be requested in this regard.

  Following the instructions of this question, I have re-recognized my blade twice.  Looking at the KVM, I have not seen a no boot device message, which was to be expected.  I went to re - install ESXi 5.5 (which was already installed on the SD card before the open-ended question) and I am now met with the following message is displayed:

  isolinux: disk error 20, AX = 422D, reader EF

  I rebooted several times the blade to re - try unsuccessfully to installation.  I even went back to an ISO of 5.1 ESXi, who gave the best results.

  The ISOs I use are UCS VMware ISOs downloaded directly from VMware.

  Please check the question as answered future users faced with the same question

  -Kenny

• Error when installing ESXi 5 on 8 workstation

  Hello team,

  I'm dounia. Recently, I completed my training as a VCP on vSphere 5. But when I try to set up a lab in my personal pc using workstation 8, it gives the VT is not enabled on your processor error. I even checked in my physical syustem BIOS and it has been activated. I disabled it and re-enabled again. Then, turn power off and power on the same. But still the same error. I checked the BIOS settings on the operating system prompted but unable to find VT settings on it.

  I am using Windows 7 32-bit operating system

  Intel i3 processor

  I allocated CPU 2 and Core 2, GBB 50 HDD, 2 GB of RAM to the ESXi.

  Please help me!

  Thank you

  Dounia

  Welcome to the VMware communities forum.

  You will need to tweak the virtual machine a little to get VT crossed at the prompt.

  Workstation 8 / Player 4

  Virtualized HV is available for the hardware virtual version 8 virtual machines on the hosts that support Intel VT - x or AMD - V and EPT of IVR. To activate the HV virtualized, select VM-> settings and access the processor settings screen. Check the box 'Virtualiser Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/IVR.' You will see a warning that virtualized HV will make this inconsistent VM with other VMware products. In particular, if this virtual computer is moved to a 5.0 ESXi host, virtualized HV is available without twist additional.

  For more information, please see this document - http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8970.

• How do I apply the network drivers for CD when installing ESXi 5.0?

  I am completely new to ESXi. I was not able to find the installation instructions, but they have to be there.

  Anyway, I burned the isos of ESXi 5.0 rollup and driver on CD. ESXi enters the installation and then stops with the message on the NICs 'without cards network have been detected. No network adapters are physically connected to the system, or a driver not been located. A third-party driver may be required. I expected to have the ability to point to the cd with the drivers rollup cd, but the only option is to restart. How should I proceed?

  drivers must be in the ESXi installation media.  You can use the generator image and PowerCLI as indicated below.  Same steps apply

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/2005205

• Problem of memory Cache L2 when install ESXi VMware 5 by 8

  I tried to test the ability of vSphere on a virtual machine.

  Then I got an error message.

  "The cost measured of the miss of the cache L2 [some number] not within the limits, 40 used instead... »

  My machine spec is listed below...

  Host computer:

  CPU: Intel Xeon E5440 2.83 GHz

  RAM: 8 GB

  OS: Windows Server 2008 64-bit

  Guest computer:

  CPU: 2 processors x 2 cores

  Virtualization engine: automatic

  RAM: 2 GB

  Anyone has an idea about this? Thank you in advance!

  Which seems 'normal' if I do not know why you ended up on the screen of the banner.  What happens if you click on the console window and press Alt - F2 to switch to the DCUI?

• Install ESXi on laptop

  Hello

  Just again with installation question, how to add NETWORK adapter drivers when installing ESXi in the laptop.

  and a minimum of RAM, HARD drive and other.

  Thank you

  Anand.P.K

  To install ESXi on unsupported hardware, you will need to know if there is a package of drivers for hardware components such as your network card and create an installation with this already injected driver image.

  The minimum requirement for ESXi is 4 GB (you need more memory if you want to run virtual machines however). The basically required disk space depends on the virtual machine to run, for ESXi itself - including the scores of dump - requires less than 10 GB. However, given that it is a laptop, you may have to see if the HARD disk controller is supported as well.

  André

• After re-installing ESXi data store

  Dear all,

  We were using VMWare ESX 3.5 on an experimental basis.

  There are 6 hard drives connected to the controller RAID servers. We have created 2 logical drives: 2 drives in RAID 1 and 3 disks + 1 as a spare online in RAID 5. We installed VMware ESX 3.5 on the first logical disk (RAID 1) and after installation added second disc (RAID 5) using the function 'add the data store' in the VMware VI Client as a second data store.

  That the trial period is over, we want to remove VMware ESX 3.5 and replace it with VMware ESXi 3.5. We copied all files with files from virtual computer on the second data store.

  My question is this:

  What will happen with the second data store when installing ESXi 3.5 on the first logical disk (RAID 1)?

  If nothing will happen to the second store of data (RAID 5) during installation, the function 'Add the data store' of the VI Client will allow us to add this data without fomratting store it?

  Thanks in advance,

  Orhan

  There is an option in the installation allowing you not to crush the warehouses of VMFS data - so when you start your new server it should already see the existing data store and you should be able to go through it and see the existing data

  If you find this or any other answer useful please consider awarding points marking the answer correct or useful

• Error in installing ESXi 5 on PC

  Need help... when installing ESXi, I get an error "the CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine.
  
  What could be the reason for such reason?

  The parameters must be configured in the host system (HP Pavilion). I don't know how this BIOS looks like, you can search settings (settings of the processor usually). As mentioned earlier, after changing the setting, the system power cycle!

  André

• When installing a new operating system isn't automatically wipe the hard disk, create a new partition, and then install the operating system?

  Have a Dell system, caught a virus and it has really messed up the PC. Recently, it got worse so I tried to reinstall the operating system with the Dell disks. It wouldn't work. So I bought for Windows 7 Professional, it will not be installed. My first question when installing a new operating system isn't automatically wipe the hard disk, create a new partition, and then install the operating system? Because this does the same as the Dell disks, is to take what is on the hard drive and put it in a folder called windows old, is not formatting the HD. When I boot the disk, it shows the installation of files then open windows and start the installation. Before he could finish I get an error missing or corrupted files. Tried several times now, windows will still not open. Any suggestions? Once while trying to install the pc crashed with a blue screen which is one of the reasons why I have reinstall the OS, he started to plant a few times. I don't remember all the details on my PC, but its 4 years, triple core coprocessors, ram 8 GB, 500 GB HD. At the same time just after all this started in Jan. I had also improved my 3 GB to 8 GB memory. I bought the Dell memory for my system. Since the crash, could there be a problem with these new memory chips? Last night I tried to disassemble each and reinstalling it, but that doesn't seem to make a difference. Before I tried to reinstall the operating system, the pc was see the concert 8.

  Original title: used to install Windows 7

  Disconnect any other (additional) internal hard drives and external USB devices.
  Look for any loose hard drive power or cables SATA, graphics card or other power cables.

  First run Memtest86 +:
  It runs from a floppy disk or CD and should eliminate or confirm if one or more of your memory
  sticks are bad or the values of the SPD in the BIOS are correct.
  Let it run for as long as you can: 2,4,6,8 or several hours (at least 3 full passes), so no errors at that time then your ram is OK.
  http://www.memtest.org/
  Memtest86 + Guide/How To (use the.) ISO to create a bootable CD)
  http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=409152

  Hard drive test:
  If you do not know your readers of the brand and model, try "Speccy",.
  It provides information from the computer/system in detail:
  OS, CPU, RAM, motherboard, graphics, Hard Drive, optical, Audio, peripherals, network.
  Note: Option RAM indicates number of slots, DRAM Timing.
  Works your memory speed (frequency). The nominal frequency of your memory.
  http://www.Piriform.com/Speccy

  Test your player - create a Bootable CD:
  Ranging from 5 to 25% (depending on the make and model) new hard disks are defective.
  Note: Reliability of the drive hard has come the way down over the last 24 months and improved a bit lately according to manufacturing.

  Test your drive with the car manufacture utility.
  If you have a new hard drive Seagate the very next thing would be to download Seagate Seatools
  (bootable CD) and check bad sectors.
  SeaTools for information: http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/
  SeaTools for Windows download: http://www.seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/saturn/seatools-win-master/
  SeaTools for DOS download:
  http://www.Seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/consumer-electronics/LD25-series/SeaTools-DOS-master/

  For Western Digital readers to download the .iso from WdDiag file: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=611&sid=30&lang=en

  Samsung Estool: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/utilities/ES_Tool.html
  Samsung Disk Manager software: http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm

  Hitachi Drive Fitness Test Software: http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
  Diagnostic tool available for use by customers who believe that having a brand Toshiba Fujitsu hard drive:
  http://SDD.Toshiba.com/main.aspx?path=ServicesandSupport/WarrantySupport/SoftwareUtilities

  Notice of Fujitsu drive management utility: http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/storage/hdd/

  Toshiba CD bootable: (BACK Diagnostic Tool version 7.0 for IDE/ATA/SATA hard disks)
  http://SDD.Toshiba.com/main.aspx?path=ServicesSupport/FujitsuDrivesUSandCanada/SoftwareUtilities#diagnostic

  Also check Home Edition free Partition Wizard option "Test of disc surface":
  http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

  J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com

• UCS C220 M3 custom problem after installing ESXi 5.1.0 Cisco

  Hello world

  I m using a Cisco UCS C220 M3 when I tried to install ESXi 5.1.0 custom Cisco after complete the entire process and restart the server. The ESXi has not started it appeared as if there is no operating system.

  In addition, before installing ESXi I configured a HDD in RAID 0, initialized the RAMDisk and chosen as a pilot.

  Hoping someone could help me.

  Llianovich,

  Unfortunately, the on-board controller is not supported with ESXi.  I saw other people using this controller for VMware and makes the work but the behavior is very random and it could work or fail at any time. It is recommended to use one of the controllers of basic PCI or Mezzanine by the ESXi (see c220 m3 datasheet below)

  STEP4SELECT CONFIGURATION of RAID (page 21)

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10493/C220M3_SFF_SpecSheet.PDF

  Embedded MegaRAID controller

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/docs/unified_computing/UCS/c/HW/C220/install/RAID.html#wp1028426

  

• Network of ESXi - different behavior when installing adapter

  Hi Experts,

  I came across a strange problem on the network adapters section:

  • I was installing the ESXi 5.5 in a standalone Machine (re-usable)
  • When installing, it showed me the error on non detected network cards and I checked the compatibility of the guide and found that it was not a supported network card.
  • Then I installed 'VMware Workstation 10' on the same machine on the host operating system
  • I have created a virtual machine and tried to install 'ESXi' inside the virtual machine [just for curiosity\
  • He installed perfactly without error / warning (s).

  My concern is 'how and why ESXi comes with two different behaviors between installation Metel naked Machine v/s install inside a virtual machine on the same physical host.

  Thanks for your response in advance and I apologize if I am not able to present the screenplay with clarity.

  -Kuldeep Singh

  Under vmware workstation, the virtualized esxi uses the virtual NIC (probably E1000) driver, which is supported.  The host operating system uses its own realtek driver.

  When you try to run ESXi on bare metal, it doesn't have a realtek driver, if it fails.

  It is a driver problem.

• Failed to create the required registry key: vmware, Inc. error: 2 when installing the vm 7 wareinwin and the installation of any software of a few errors in registry pls help...

  Failed to create the required registry key: vmware, Inc. error: 2 when installing the vm 7 wareinwin and the installation of any software of a few errors in registry pls help...

  Hello mnaveen.kumar,

  Search the registry to see if this key was created. Sometimes, the installation program does not have permission to this key.

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.

  You can try to manually create the key to see if this will help.

  Please reply back and let us know if this can help.

  Sincerely,

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• slow startup of the host VMWare ESXi 5.5 when installed on the hard drive internal

  We have some servers Dell R720 with 256G RAM and 2 6core Procs.  When I install ESXi client for internal hard drives (mirrored array) it takes literally more than 5 minutes to start.  I can watch the vmware boot process crawl slowly the progress bar on the screen in "recovery" mode before moving on to the substantive start-up procedure yellow.

  Why is this slow process?  Why a hard drive inside is install using syslinux? (it's the first thing that shows on the display).  If I had to guess, I would say that the only facility to support runs of fat32 on a USB flash drive and the same hard drive installs use this same process to start.  Am I wrong?

  I'm late to the party, but we have been affected by this issue. The solution is a updated internally perc firmware.

  It's like night and day.

  Reference DELL PERC H310 Mini blades Firmware version 20.13.0 - 0007

  SAS RAID: Release date: 02/06/2014 | Last update on 02/06/2014