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More WhiteBox Success

Posted by nick.couchman Aug 26, 2008


I now have five of six of the SuperMicro machines that I own running ESXi. I'll be working on getting the other one running, too - I'm going to try to boot ESXi off PXE on that one and use it for fiddling with ESXi settings. Among the SuperMicro machines I have running are the SuperServer 5013C-i (P4-based processor), a SuperMicro X5DPA-TGM+ motherboard, and a SuperMicro X5DL8-GG motherboard. They all connect to an Openfiler 2.2 machine via the iSCSI software initiator and share that volume for VMs. Next year I'm going to try to replace these five machines (and a few more) with a couple of 8-core machines and decide what hypervisor to run. Anyway, kudos to VMware for releasing ESXi under a free license - working for me!

I'm still ticked off at them, though, for removing support for permissions at the Pool and VM levels!

Tags: esx, esxi, whitebox, supermicro, dell, hypervisor, hardware


Oct 4, 2008 11:11 AM mouseyd

I have managed to do something similar. I have 2 dell gx400 p4 servers with 2GB ram running esxi fine. Only problem is that I get a kernal panic on shutdown....funny thing is on reboot it works with no issues. Have you experienced this? I will be working to ass Virtual center and iscsi to this setup very soon. Any info I can use?
Thanks

Dec 16, 2008 1:46 PM nick.couchman in response to: mouseyd

No, I've not seen this issue. Is that a kernel panic on guest shutdown, or when actually shutting down the ESXi host?

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