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• PowerEdge 1850: Need to add storage: ISCSI or SATA controller or? : Host does not support configuring passthrough

  I have a (non - VT capable) PowerEdge 1850 which took an ESXi 4.0 U1 (Dell Version) installation like a champ.  I know that I probably won't be able to have 64-bit clients.

  In this box of ESXi (laboratory

  Server) I have:

  • 2 x 73 GB SCSI U320 drives in RAID 0 array.

  • 6 GB OF RAM ECC

  • 2 x 1 GB NIC

  • 2 x PCI - X slots (PCI - X slot 133 MHz and PCI - X connector 100 / 66 MHz)

  I want to add more space "VM/Guest" and not spending too much money.

  What is my best solution?

  1. Find a compatible ESATA 3Gbps controller card (I have a nice 500 GB SATA Drive laying around)? ...

  2. Or should I get out an old box and throw a Gigabit NETWORK card and a SATA inside player and try my hand at Openfiler? I have yet to try it.

  3. ... Or... something else?

  Could someone help me hand choose either a PCI controller card - X ESATA/SATA (is - it possible or am I limited by my attached picture?) or a NETWORK card for my spare box (if it is not an old)?  I understand "_ _passthrough configuration"allows my virtual machine to hardware on the host computer directly, but I'm not clear how this effects my plans you want.

  I read:

  • http://www.VM-help.com/esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php#storage

  • http://ultimatewhitebox.com/iocontroller

  • http://www.VMware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php

  .. .but I am suspicious of money sinking into the material lest my PowerEdge does not support the Configuration PassThrough (does it matter?)  I still have to load a single guest.

  Thanks a lot for your time in advance!

  Get started with what you have. Do not pass anything. Set up the old PC you have as a NFS storage device. Use openfiler or? That will allow you to do some investigation/tests you want to do. Keep your eyes open for a local RAID controller or on an old server with lots of fast scsi storage you can add such as NFS or?

• "Host does not support configuring passthrough"--Dell PE 1950

  I was wondering if anyone can shed some light on how I can be able to configure this server to support a passthrough configuration.

  Basically, what I'm going to implement is a server to allow a single customer to use serial port physical on this server, there is no need for other customers would use the serial port so it can be dedicated to this customer, but currently my Dell Power Edge 1950, who has the last patched ESXi 4.0 running on it displays "host does support not configuring passthrough".

  Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  This KB article is for ESX (i) 3.5, but you can see that ESX supports the use of a physical serial port in a VM and ESXi don't.   If you wish to stay with ESXi and must support a serial port, you can consider a series to the IP for this device.

  Dave

  VMware communities user moderator

  New book in town - Start Guide quick vSphere -http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/08/12/new-book-in-town-vsphere-quick-start-guide/.

  You have a system or a PCI with VMDirectPath?  Submit your specifications to the unofficial VMDirectPath HCL - http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=21.

• Cannot migrate VM between 5.5 ESXi versions: the version of the product to the destination host does not support one or several CPU features

  We receive an error message that I am trying to make sense. I understand very well the notion of compatibility, CPU, CPUID, masking and so on, after working on a competitor hypervisor. However, this error seems wrong (or needs better wording) based on my understanding:

  Here is the message:

  ----

  A general error occurred: the version of the product to the destination host does not support one or several features of the CPU currently use by the virtual machine.

  Characteristics of CPUID level 0 x 1 'ecx' register are indicated with a '1' bit: x00x:xxx0:xx0x:x 000: x 0 11xx:00: 00xx:11xx

  ----

  
  

  This happened during the migration between two hosts ESXi with the same physical processors - in this case, a Westmere X 5650.

  
  

  The source host is on ESXi build 2068190 (5.5). The destination host is on ESXi build 1474528.

  
  

  The bits it seems to complain are:

  
  

  DTES64

  Monitor/MWait

  Cx16

  PDCM

  The punch line seems to be: "the product version of the destination host. However, I have trouble believing that support for these features have been added to ESXi between the two versions. If it were, VMware has been certainly silent about.

  For what it's worth, explicitly set us the CPUID masks in our virtual machines (no, CVS is not an option for us at this time.) This is the mask:

  CPUID.1.EAX = "00000000000000100000011001010001".

  CPUID.1.ECX = "00000010100110001110001000111111".

  CPUID.1.EDX = "10001111111010111111101111111111".

  CPUID.80000001.ECX = "00000000000000000000000000000001.

  CPUID.80000001.EDX = "00101000000100000000100000000000".

  cpuid.d.EAX = "00000000000000000000000000000000".

  cpuid.d.ECX = "00000000000000000000000000000000".

  cpuid.d.EDX = "00000000000000000000000000000000".

  Note that the bits of the message complains (2, 3, 14, 15) * are * in fact forced to '1' in our mask of cpuid.1.ecx. That means (if I understand correctly), ESXi does not have the virtual machine unless the host processor supports the feature. And in our case, the virtual machine will start with happiness on nodes, with both versions. It will be not simply migrate between them.

  So, long story short, is this a bug of ESXi? The error message is misleading? I understand something?

  Thank you

  
  Matt

  To use the masks feature VM in this way, you must replace all the 1 to your masks with-'s:

  CPUID.1.EAX = "00000000000000-000000 - 00-0 - 000-

  CPUID.1.ECX = "000000-0-00--000---000-000---".

  CPUID.1.EDX = '-000 - 0-0 - 0-

  CPUID.80000001.ECX = "0000000000000000000000000000000 -"

  CPUID.80000001.EDX = "00-0-000000-00000000-00000000000.

  cpuid.d.EAX = "00000000000000000000000000000000".

  cpuid.d.ECX = "00000000000000000000000000000000".

  cpuid.d.EDX = "00000000000000000000000000000000".

  Zeros erases the features that are not available on your hosts Westmere, and dashes will leave the other one features.  The problem with those masks was forced to you certain features on who would have normally been off.

• Dell Poweredge 2850 and ESXi 4.1

  I have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with 12 GB of RAM and two CPUs, hyperthreading with 350 GB of disk space.

  This box was initially installed with Redhat Linux ES 5.4 64-bit and OS 64 bit CentOS 5.5 with no problems, so I know the processor supports 64-bit.

  I then installed VMWare ESXi version 4.1 on the Dell Poweredge 2850 with no problems.

  Then, I created a few instances VM I want to install CentOS 5.5 64 bit.  During the installation of a VMware instance, I get this:

  msg.cpuid.notLongmodeQuestionFmt:This veritual is configured for 64-bit operating systems.
  However, the 64-bit mode is not possible.
  Longmode is disabled for this virtual machine.
  For more information, see http://VMware.com/info?id=152
  Continue without 64 bit support?

  Now the question I have is this: given that VMWare is problems with 64-bit OSes comments, how is it that I can install CentOS 5.5 64 bit on this Dell PowerEdge 2850 with no problems.  It seems obvious to me that the PowerEdge 2850 works well with the 64 bit OS but not ESXi 4.1.

  How can I get around this?

  Comments?  Thanks in advance.

  The dell series 8 (1850/2850) have no vt support, so not support 64-bit virtual machine, except 6850.

  The output of the processor shows the same thing, or rather, what he shows no vt in its ability.  It shows lm, long mode, so you can run 64-bit, that you are running ESX, but to succeed in this 64-bit support, you need the lm, you and vt, which you don't have.

  -KjB

• A Dell PowerEdge 2850 server is used for the new ESXi server, but it does not support the 64-bit VM.

  A Dell PowerEdge 2850 server is used for the new ESXi server, but it does not support the 64-bit VM.

  I can't believe it.

  When I start up a virtual computer, it gives a wrong message shown in the picture below.

  Does anyone have any ideas on this?

  Usually not enabled virtualization technology in host BIOS.

  Take a look at can not power on a 64-bit Windows VM

• Dell PowerEdge 2850 does not start on a CD of ESXi 3.5

  Hello...

  I have a Dell PowerEdge 2850, who does not start on a CD of VMware ESXi 3.5.  The server works very well with Windows 2000 server.  My first thought to solve this problem was the BIOS.  This is all what I've updated in what concerns the firmware on the box today.

  BIOS - A07

  Perc4e/Di - 5B2D, A19

  BMC Firmware - 1.83, A10

  Here are the latest versions of firmware available from Dell on this box.  The machine starts to start the machine.  But all I see is the first line of text of the CD which is the following:

  ISOLinux 3.63 2008-04-10 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 h. Peter Anvin

  My next thought was that there was something wrong with the ISO image that I downloaded.  I tested it on another machine; has worked like a champ.  Now, I read on a few different posts within the VMware communities that some people have had luck with this question and others did not.

  The inventory number of Dell on the machine is 6HDGS81

  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

  Some of the Dell CD-ROM may be little flighty. I had hard time to install a CD earlier which worked perfectly well on another machine. I made another copy of the disc, this time burning the CD at a 4 x speed. The installation went perfectly fine afterwards.

• Install ESXi on a Dell PowerEdge R820

  
  Greetings,

  I try to install ESXi on a Dell PowerEdge R820 server.  I have problems with the reason of the installation because the NETWORK adapter is not supported by the operating system (5.1 ESXi).  I did a little research and discovered that there are custom versions of ESXi out there to install on vaious systems.  That would be the problem?  If so, does anyone know a particluar website that I might be able to get the correct version of ESXi 5.1 for this server dell PowerEdge R820.
  Here are the specs:
  Dell PowerEdge R820 - RAID 5
  Interface NETWORK Broadcom 1 GB card

  Xeon processors (w / 8 cores)
  512 GB RDIMMS
  3 x 146 GB SAS hot plug hard drive

  Any help would be great!  Thank you!!

  Graduate of evil

  If so, does anyone know a particluar website that I might be able to get the correct version of ESXi 5.1 for this server dell PowerEdge R820.

  Try this site:

  Experience of VMware Front: ESXi-Customizer

  Graduate of evil

  Prepare for more fighting after obtaining the diploma

• Install a non-of a Dell Poweredge 2850 server operating system

  Hello everyone.

  I was wondering how I could go about the installation of operating system, including Windows 7 and Windows XP on my server. I understand that they are not made for the server, but I would use Windows 7 instead of the server operating system. Windows XP is an option, but I'd rather not, if I have to

  Stick the DVD in the drive and start to install.  Chances are that Windows 7, like server 2008R2 will NOT have the drivers for the controller RAID (PERC 4e/Di), so use the driver 2008R2 for the RAID controller (and any other device requiring disks after installation).

  Controller RAID PERC 4e/Di to 2008R2 driver:
  http://ftp.Dell.com/SCSI-RAID/LSI-LOGIC_MULTI-DEVICE_A00_R227150.exe

  Also keep in mind that PERC does NOT support non-RAID, so you MUST configure RAID before installing, or even with the right driver, no hard drive is visible.

  Potential problems:

  Graphics - you should probably use the drivers of graphics/video 2008 x 64 for a decent resolution.  Keep in mind that server (such as 16 MB video memory) graphics will run NO Aero or high resolution/refresh.

  DRAC - if you have a DRAC (Dell Remote Access Controller) card installed, you will not be able to install drivers to meet these devices in Device Manager.

  Management system - software of management of Dell is NOT supported on the client OS.

  Other:

  In the 2850 processors do NOT support the VT, then you would be very limited with virtualization options.

  Sounds: there is no sound on a server.

• Backup function does not?

  Backup function does not. The program runs and ends with an error message, access is denied. (0x80070005). Looks like a backup has been completed. I tried another external hard drive as a destination and got the same result. Help!

  Hello

  · You are the administrator of the computer?

  Step 1: Make sure that you are connected to the computer as an administrator. If you are not then you will need administrator to help you in the backup.

  Step 2: Temporarily disable the antivirus and check if the problem persists. If no problem occurs, then you need to firewall settings in the security software.

  Note: Check that you activate your anti-virus protection on the computer back after you complete these steps. It is not recommended to disable these settings on the computer. It's just to solve the problem.

• When Im in Lightroom 4 and make an edit in photoshop, after Im done making changes in photoshop that I do a backup, but does not load the file to lightroom. This just started happening. It was working before.

  When Im in Lightroom 4 and make an edit in photoshop, after Im done making changes in photoshop that I do a backup, but does not load the file to lightroom. This just started happening. It was working before.

  Please go to the location of your Lightroom Catalog, and there you will see the folder for Lightroom Catalog Previews.Lrdata

• vCenter 5.1.0b does not support vSphere ESXi 5.0.0?

  I came across a weird error today at work.

  Immediately after installing vCenter 5.1.0b, I tried to add a host to a data center newly created ESXi 5.0.0.

  I met an error that said, vCenter does not support the hosts of this type.

  I thought, really?  The compatibility matrix says it does.

  At this time, I left for the day and will answer on Monday.

  In the meantime, is someone met such a mistake?

  vCenter... can't stand the hosts of this type.

  Could you please provide the exact error message!

  At what stage of the wizard have "Add host" you received the error message?

  How the host is currently allowed? With the free license of the hypervisor?

  André

• VMware ESXi 4 on Dell PowerEdge 2950 CDROM missing in virtual machines

  Hi all

  I installed VMware 4.0 on my Dell PowerEdge 2950, and everything moved very well. I had the ISO image from the support site on the website of VMware and Dell. I installed both with the same problem, once installed, the CD-ROM will not be displayed in any virtual machine, I create.

  I changed the boot parameters, the order of the boot, played with the BIOS settings, and no matter what I do, when I start the virtual machine and open a console window and try to connect on the CDROM, a message displays saying that the device is disconnected.

  I have reinstalled Windows on the box, went to the site of support of Dell and applied each update BIOS patch and firmware of the box. Including the one for the TEAC CDROM, which is in my box.

  Anyone had this problem before? If so, how should I do? I really need this works quickly. Without a CDROM, I can't install software such as SQL Server and others.

  Kind regards

  Michael Lange

  I assume that you have added a CDROm for virtual machines?

  You then specify "logged in/connected to the power on" in the settings of VM page? (I know it's usually obvious.. .but I did it very mistaken once this week.. .accidentally added the CDROM to the VM wrong.)

  What OS your virtual machine is running and you have the installed VMTools?

  If issuing a VMtools install on a windows host, it works, then the Cd drive works as ESX uses the virtual CD Rom to install the tools.

• PowerEdge 2850 Windows Server 2012 do not start

  Well, I have a PE 2850 that was loaded to the top with Windows Server 2012 at the beginning of the year last as part of our upgrade to Windows 7. Even though I know that Windows Server 2008 is the latest version of Microsoft to officially support the SCSI interfaces as RAID PERC 4E/DI included in the 2850 card, I was able to work around in first install 64-bit Server 2008 with the SCSI drivers and then doing an upgrade online to the 2012 server.

  Everything went fine for the last year and half, but when I got to work yesterday, the server had crashed and he was sitting on the screen of the BIOS with the following error message:

  Memory/battery problems were detected. The adapter has recovered, but cached data have been lost. Press a key to continue.

  I pressed on enter and the server started to move to a preparation repair screen Windows where the progress bar is not long about 80% of the way and then froze for more than an hour. Subsequent attempts to restart in safe mode led to the server of freezing for several minutes before restarting once more to this same error message at the Windows logo screen. I can pull up to the management of the RAID and see my partitions still there, and I even loaded my readers in an old PE 2600 to check consistency on the logical drives (no problem found). However, the old 2600 is 32-bit architecture and it won't try to boot into the operating system.

  At this point, I'm really just trying to get a full backup of my system. I don't mind getting a new server, but I don't want to keep throwing money at this old piece of 12 year of equipment without knowing if it works or not. The problem is that 2012 uses ReFS, and none of the recovery programs I found can access my logical volumes. Boot from the OS Installation disk in the recovery console doesn't work, because the OS disk does not include SCSI drivers native to be able to see the score of the OS or the data partition.

  I think I'll call a few services data recovery tomorrow, but I would check here for ideas first. Any input is greatly appreciated.

  Microsoft has removed native SCSI support with 2008 R2, but R2 2008 provided Dell drivers for the PERC. These drivers work for the installation of Server 2012 as well.

  Memory/battery message: all stop and order the memory of replacement for the controller RAID, 4D554 part number. Nothing related to the operating system won't work (installation, repair, etc.) until you do. This question is very specific to the PERC 4e/Di on the 28 x 0.

  The 2850 is not 12 years. First of all, he started 10 years ago to shipping.

• get tap three fingers does not work in 'Preview '.

  Hello

  After switching to macOS Sierra, the "Search with three finger tap" (to borrow the dictionary) does not work in Preview (but works fine in Safari, iBook etc.).

  Is there anyone face the same problem?

  My machine is-

  MacBook Pro (retina, 13-inch, mid-2014), processor 2.8 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 memory.

  Previously the Trackpad settings were also Visual presentations (such as the use of the fingers and hands) to show how a specific parameter. But in macOS Sierra Visual presentation has disappeared and there is a still image (showing a boy eating something while standing in a relaxed) on all parameters, for example:

  

  

  

  Is there anyone facing this problem too?

  I'm having the same problem. Thought it was a bug. Restarted my Mac, nothing. I do not know  will solve this problem with its next update.