interoperability between Workstation 6.5 and ESXi 4.0.0

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  Hi, we are in the process of updating our ESXi 3.5 servers to ESX 4. We take off all virtual machines 1 ESXi 3.5 upgrade to ESX 4.0, then bring back the virtual machines. The question is, where the new ESX 4.0 is down and we are obliged to return these VMs ESXi 3.5, will update these VMs to hardware worm 7 means that they can no longer be able to run on ESXi 3.5?

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• Store of data sharing between 4 ESX and ESXi 5

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  I have a vSphere environment 4.1 with a vCenter and a cluster of 3 ESX 4.1 access to the content of data through fiberchanel (type scneario) warehouses.

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• Differences between ESX and ESXi

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  As I am new to VI environment I doubt that where features ESX and ESXi are different, it may be stupid but can help me a lot.

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  Please check the link to the differences between ESX and ESXi below.

  http://www.VMware.com/products/vSphere/ESXi-and-ESX/compare.html

  Please note ESX is present in version 3.x, 4.x. starting vsphere 5.0, we have only ESXi.

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• store of data sharing between ESX and ESXi?

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• ESXi 3.5 U3 in workstation 6.5 and server 2.0 installation

  Setup an ESXi server in a virtual machine seems to be a good approach to test and play arround, I thought...

  Compared to the search for a cheap HW to set up a physical ESXi, it should be much easier, I thought...

  I am a beginner with ESXi...

  Looking arround VMware communities and internet it turns that there seems to be so much confusion

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  So far so good, let's do it. I'll start with the VMware workstation 6.5 I just got.

  My test platform:

  • AMD Athlon 64 X 2 5200 +, 8 GB RAM, card mother ASUS M2N SATA drives, etc.

  • Windows Server 2008 SP1 Datacenter Edition

  • VMware Workstation 6.5.1 build-126130

  What I did then:

  • Installation of a new virtual machine in VMware workstation with these settings:
    -OS comments: other
    -2 processors
    -1048 MB RAM (have seen comments saying 1 GB is not enough, need a little more than 1 GB)
    -VMware HW version: 6.5
    -10 GB disk, SCSI, persistent, preallocated not (you can also use allocated in advance, if you have enough free space)
    -1 bridged NETWORK adapter
    -3 custom maps (VMnet3), for later use...

  • CD/DVD (IDE): connected to ISO: F:\VMware6.5-VMs\VMware-VMvisor-InstallerCD-3.5.0_Update_3-123629.i386.iso

  • Did not start the virtual machine now but check/add something to the vmx file created:
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    monitor_control.enable_svm = 'TRUE' (for AMD, but this seems to be an old not more necessary framework for ESXi 3.5 U3?, not sure so left in it)
    monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = 'TRUE '.
    
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    monitor_control.vt32 = 'TRUE' (for Intel, but this seems to be an old not more necessary framework for ESXi 3.5 U3?)
    
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    scsi0.virtualDev = "free".
    ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000".
    Ethernet1.virtualDev = "e1000".
    ethernet2.virtualDev = "e1000".

  
  ethernet3.virtualDev = "e1000".

• Then propelled to the top of the virtual machine:
  -L'installation began of the ISO
  - And now he's going very slowly...
  After about 3 or 4 h this typical yellow screen disappears and a black rises!


- [F11] displays some strange error messages, see attached screenshot
-Installation appears to hang now...
-Oh no, he's just a little (the installation screen initial is again coming (welcome...) Please select CANCEL / REPAIR / INSTALLATION)
Of course, the virtual machine has restarted but there is no bootable on the boot disk installation?

It's at least the 5th or 6th attempt to operate, very frustrating!
Wait for, after all these good and useful, advice I found before.

Question: Why does close to 4 hours, then ANDS upward with an unbootable installation?

Anyone has an idea what is wrong?

What Workstaiton 6.5, which is causing the problem

Even I did something stupid ot totally wrong?

What these error messages (see attached)?

Obviously, they have developed at the beginning of this facility and then it happened.

Tomorrow will try the same server 2.0...

Any help appreciated,

Hans

What jmattson forgets to tell you, is that workaround for version 0F the AMD CPU is always available in workstation 6.0.x

It has been removed for ease of maintenance of the code and well... the processor will forever be...

So you should be able to get ESX running under Workstation 6.0.x

Another clue is that the families of processors numbers are written in hexadecimal notation not in decimal form as humans like to use...

We programmers tend to forget that you ignore maybe 0F (hex) = 15 (dec) and only 10 (hex) = 16 (dec)

So 10 (H) is just family version 16 and you're still on 15.

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• ESX and ESXi

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  Thank you

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