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• Question about installing ESXi 5.5

  I'm new to VMware and I tried to install ESXi 5.5 on some hardware that I need to build a test environment to home.  I know that some of my hardware is not on the supported list, but I have worked and now faced with a situation that I don't understand.

  I have a processor intel Core i3 4130 running on a card mother B85 based.  I seems to have a problem with the VTx - d settings in the bios and that you must use noIOMMU to get the installation to run.

  When I run the file .iso installation disc or usb image I go to the screen that says download now the client and to manage the server.  The strange thing is that along the way, I'm never asked what hard drive to install to, and it does not install on a hard drive.  It loads just for memory and runs from there, I think I can run this because all the hard drives are connected to the SATA3 and not SATA2 ports.  Could it be simple or is it the result of hardware compatibility problems, a simple change of SATA port will not fix?

  As someone can tell me what noIOMMU done or where I can find this information for me.

  Thank you

  Ted

  Found!

  It turns out that, as a result of information found in the thread Re: i7 - 4770 K Haswell core - ESXi5.1 hang "initializing IOV" is what made me.  The last message says to delete what is on the line and add noIOMMU to the line.  Delete what was on the line caused the installer to does not work.  Leaving the "runweasel" and adding let Setup and I'm good.  I guess not knowing what I was doing at all, let me make a mistake so simple, who would have thought to check it out.

  In any case I now have ESXi installed in running and so time to play and learn.

  Thanks for the help.  I'll probably looking more as I go.

• ESXI 4 Questions

  Well, I got installed ESXI which was the easy part... The hardest part so far is to find things that... I went to the server via another computer and download the tools, he said. The tool is the thing of vsphere that apparently is not free or ESXI is not free I can't really say that because it indicates just that theres a 60 day trial... anyway, my questions are the following:

  1. the only way I could get one of these virtual machines to load from an ISO file image is I have is to run the virtual machine, let it do the verification for remote loader, then reset the machine and pressing f2. This gives me enough time to go and click the cd-rom, load my iso and then exit the bios to load successfully Setup for windows/linux... Is there an easier way to do this? I really don't understand why you can't just mount the image...

  2. how exactly do you go about restoring and backup of stuff... ? & lt;-I'm mainly testing such things for my work and his between Hyper-V and this... I read theres other tools or something but you I have to pay for them, and my job is unwilling to cough money up until a final decision is rendered. It is the first virtualization server that our work will have and I head the project. The only thing is that everyone is incomplete on that and wants to be shown how this all works. I used vmware things before, but it has always been a workstation configuration. Client/server thing quite new to me.

  3. I figured out how to get the "images" on the server, but exactly how to download stuff to it? & lt; -I've read yet still theres a jump, skip and jump around it, but is it not a function inside this program vsphere that does? I activated the SSH but the server does not support ftping through the ssh tunnel.

  4 are free tools for this free ESXI and ESXI server are itself? I was under the understanding but its either the server or the vsphere program which is not free. & lt; -the only thing is that it doesn't show anywhere to enter a key for the server or the vsphere program, that is why I am confused which one is really...

  5 is this really all that useful and more telling me that my VM machines are work/letting see me them & control machine vsphere virtual machine "hardware"... So far, I have not found all the features besides that...

  The server it is all running on is also a dual opteron quad with 32gigs of ram and 8 x RE3 1 TB Raid 5, but this raid is only temporary and will probably soon be promoted to a 16 x Raid 6...

  6. is it really strong enough to run a small sql, old print server, old server ts server and a little other sql server?

  (1) you can, if you download the ISO in a store, you can change the configuration of your virtual machine and set the CD rom device to ISO. This makes persistent between restarts, rather than fix the console level. Just like a physical machine if there is already an image of the operating system at this time where you need to go into the virtual bios and set the boot order.

  (2) several different ways according to your storage and your products, you have access to. The simpler conceptualy is to simply treat it as a physical node and install your backup application to it and save them in the same way that you would with a physical. Alternitivly there are products vmware and other products for backup (VCB (now DPM)) which will take a 'snapshot' of the virtual, consolidate the disc and turn off the ESX Server. Some of them have a cost associated with their good

  (3) when it is connected to your host with CIV simply select a store of data (via configuration or in your inventory) right click and choose 'Browse the data store' you FTP as options in there like folders and load and download files/folders

  (4) ESXI is free just sign up for a (free) key and Server license and you are good to go at this time. The Vsphere Client is free, no worries.

  (5) more than enough, most of the time ESXi is a fully functional virtualization platform, we run 300 + virtual machines (150-200 running loads of production, Primarly SQL and Exchange) If you have the right configuration and the equipment you will be good to go. Don't forget your hardware bottlenecks and plan them for the future if virtualization is an impressive tool, but it can be a challenge for 'rat hunting' Performance issues there are many links in the chain. I would like to emphasize that the bottleneck of disk and CPU contention has been more difficult to wrap around the action and determine both maintain good your ratio and don't forget that a shared storage (pin count) are your friends for good performance

  Jered Rassier

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• 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

• install Esxi on re-usable

  Hello

  I have a Hp server, I intend to install Vmware on it. Please help me to sub questions.

  1 > what version of Vmware would be appropriate install (ESXi 5.5 or 6.0)

  2 > installation procedure of NU METAL.

  Thank you

  ANUP Kumar

  Welcome to the community,

  1. version to be used depends on what is supported on your hardware (see VMware Compatibility Guide) especially with the new generation of server (Gen8/Gen9) you must customize the installation ESXi yourself (inject the necessary drivers) or use the already custom image provided by HP (see Customize of Images VMware ESXi for HP ProLiant servers)
  2. the installation is quite simple. Start the host from an ESXi installation CD and follow the instructions on the screen.

  What you can do before installing ESXi is to update the host with the latest firmware available and set up the RAID. Also, don't forget to activate the settings necessary BIOS, like the x - VT (Virtualization Technology)... It is also advisable to define 'High Performance' power management profile.

  André

• Big problem with installing ESXi 5.5 on Cisco UCS M200 B3

  Hello

  I have a problem with installing esxi 5.5 on SDcard mounted in Cisco UCS B200 m3.

  ESXi Show map SD but when to start partitioning I question (attachment).

  If I install ESXi on HDD I don't see SDcard (even from the console).

  Thanks for any help

  h

  Marcel

  Hello

  Thanks for the reply but SDcard are clear. map of are new directly from Cisco.

  The good news is that I found a solution. I install the old version of ESXi (5.5 U1) and everything works fine

  Concerning

• 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

• Undetected after the fresh install ESXi virtual machines

  Hello

  I have to say I really enjoyed working with ESXi, but I run a quick question for the moment.

  I initially installed ESXi 5 on an SD card and created several virtual machines via vSphere Client Windows. Because of the card SD comes off on the reboot (using a Dell R610), I have now decided to install ESXi 5 on a USB key. However, when I open the Windows of vSphere client, I do not see the virtual machines on the host, but I see that they are always present in the VMFS data store that I created earlier. When I boot from the SD card, they appear very well.

  I have to migrate somehow?

  Thank you very much for your help!

  As this is a new installation of ESXi you can save the VMs from the data store as the inventory.xml on the new facility can be empty.

  Measures to save the virtual machine using vmx are available on Ko http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006160

• My concerns about installing ESXi on a USB Flash Disk

  Hello!

  There was a lot of messages about installing esxi hypervisor on a usb flash drive, what I've done and I think it's ok because there's no need to waste expensive disks for installation of a very light bone

  But I have a few questions and concerns in this regard. appreciate your answers.

  1 - first of all I can't find my DL380 G7 Server internal usb. can someone give me a link or a picture where he is exactly?

  2 - Suppose that after boot completely the host, something happens on the usb drive. If nothing happens? I think there should be nothing to worry about, because the hypervisor has been loaded into the memory of the server. Am I wrong?

  3 - my concern is to have backup and the ability to restore that very quickly. some time in the past I had a single esxi host. I used powercli and commands appropriate for configuration backup host (I think that the command was something like esx-cfgbackup or like that).

  so if the flash has been corrupted, I would replace it with another and restored the settings that

  but now I host 4 esxi and vcenter. should I worry about this? How should I have backup? I know that SQL backup database of vcenter and its certificate is sufficient to have a backup of the settings of vcenter but on those who are just to vcenter and which are on the host? just want to say, what should I do to be able to replace a faulty usb disk (esxi is on it) with a new and all get back to work as it was?

  Sorry if the questions are easy to answer. I'm just a beginner

  and sorry for my bad English

  Assuming that I don't have the license for the host profiles, what should I do?

  It depends on the complexity of the configuration of the host. You can back up the configuration of the individual hosts or just reconfigure reinstalled once. In a larger environment, you'd probably for example the hosts scripted installation.

  Because the server vCenter Server usually runs as a virtual machine, it is a good idea to do an image based backup (using backup vDR or 3 rd-party applications), and - in the case where you use a dedicated SQL Server - certainly back up the database. For the backup and restoration of vCenter Server, you can also take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1023985.

  In the rare cases where an SD card fails, you can always vMotion virtual machines to another host and then reinstall the host with a new SD card.

  André

• Install ESXi 5.0 as VM with in Fusion 4.0.2?

  I have a few questions and was hoping someone might have the answers. I try to install ESXi 5 as VM with Fusion 4.0.2 and successfully done without problem. Here are the details of my hardware and Setup with descriptions of problem.

  Equipment I use.

  MAC Pro

  MAC OS X v.10.7.2

  Processor 2x2.26 GHz Quad - Core Intel Xeon (total 8 cores)

  64 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 memory

  1 TB SATA drive internal

  SSD 240 GB internal

  2 disk FireWire TB G-Drive (where the virtual machine)

  I have the fusion installed on the 1 TB drive and the ESXi host is installed on the 2 TB G-Drive, I made the drive for ESXi host 750Go so that I can get a lot of loaded VM. Now the few problems I am running are->

  (1) I can not expose more than 8 GB of memory to the ESX host when I install the 64 GB.

  (2) the ESX host, I cannot install a 64 bit OS.

  Are these limitations with Fusion or did I miss something in the Setup or configuration?

  Thank you

  nested 64-bit virtual machines require virtualized EPT-x/VT or AMD-V/IVR, which is not officially supported under Fusion.  You can enable this feature by changing your configuration file for the ESX VM manually and by adding the following line:

  VHV. Enable = TRUE

• Install ESXi

  Dear guys,

  I have 2 esx 4.0 host and I would migrate to ESXi.
  I want to reinstall the hypervisors and I have this config:

  -1 for ESX RAID 1 logical unit number

  -1 VMFS RAID 5 LUNS

  I can't get him off ESX 4.0 installation ESXi keeping VMs on VMFS?
  I would like to install some hypervisors on RAID 1 LUN keeping safe VMs on VMFS

  The question is, ESXi installation, would this work? for example. I have install ESXi and then he discovered VMFS with VM automatically.

  Thanks in advance.

  Daniele

  ESXi will wipe away the LUN on which you install the hypervisor. All other LUNS will remain intact and discovered after the installation. All you need to do - after the configuration of the host - is to add the virtual machine to inventory.

  André

• Install ESXi 4.1 clean kill given on additional disks?

  After over a year of flawless operation, I suspect that my ESXi 4.0 installation has become corrupted. VMS lock, even newly created.  I have a 40 GB drive just to install ESXi and 3 additional (1 to, 1 to and 500 GB) SATA disks for virtual machines.  My question is: what happens to the content, if anything, on those three drives SATA so I had to do a clean install on the disk of 40 GB of ESXi 4.1?  It will recognize the drives without formatting them and thus erase the data here?

  After almost a week of banging my head against the wall, I think it's all that I find myself with a try.

  Thanks in advance for any help!

  George...

  Welcome to communities

  I would check through the logs to see if you can see any cause. You can capture logs supported by the vSphere Client. File menu export or Administration.

  Analyze the logs of error or reset.

  You can easily have a problem with a drive or disk contrller.

  I remove the 40 GB drive and reinstall ESXi to a 1 GB or more large USB key. If you have installed the vCLI tools or the unit of MAS, you can save the configuration before you remove the drive, but if you think that you have any questions, that I might not. An ESXi installation should find existing data warehouses. You need to reconfigure the network and vswitches. You should also browse the data store and do a right-click on the VMX files ├a import their inventory.

• Install ESXi 4.1u1 USB to USB

  I have a N36L HP Proliant Microserver, on which I want to install ESXi 4.1u1. The material has no optical drive, but it has an internal USB that can host a flash drive. I want to install on a 1 GB stick plugged into it. It is two a question on how to do this, but also what I've discovered so far.

  (1) my first attempt was to create a portable USB HD bootable with ISO. It is documented in various places, the easiest of which is to use UNetbootin. Although apparently, it worked in previous versions of ESXi, apparently this does not work in 4.0 + since the installer insists on finding an image on an optical disc instead of the bootable media.

  (2) the workaround for this is to use a kickstart file to call 'usb install', which has the secondary effect of automation of the installation too. However calling "autopart' with the name of the flash drive fails also in my case because scripted installs need to 5 GB of space on the target disk. My stick is 1 GB.

  My remaining options are:

  (1) use another VM (possibly?) with an optical drive to install on a USB thumb key and then plug it into the server. Would this work? Is there only one image for all types of hardware, or installing regular CDROM EXSi when thing custom installed on a specific material does something?

  (2) use a "image writer" (winimage/dd) to write the installation image to ISO directly on the USB. To do this, I have the same questions as above. The images fit everything?

  3) temporarily renounce this strategy and use a cdrom or install it on a hard drive instead.

  Any help would be appreciated!

  Option 1) would do. A base image would work different across of the box. You will find another server or using vmware workstation to create your bootable USB on esxi.  You can follow the tutorial here simply replace these virtual CD ISO of vmware workstation. http://www.techhead.co.UK/installing-VMWare-ESXi-4-0-on-a-USB-memory-stick-the-official-way

• Add drivers to install ESXi?

  During the installation of ESX, you get the question if you want to add additional drivers, but who are not possible while installing ESXi?

  Otherwise, if a critical part as the disk controller is not included in the basic configuration, so I can't install ESXi on this hardware at all?

  Custom drivers can be added to the file oem.tgz on the installation media.

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• 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

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