VMware Communities: Message List - ESXi Hangs during Installation on Dell PowerEdge T605

Re: ESXi Hangs during Installation on Dell PowerEdge T605

peterfilardo — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:14:44 GMT

Does that mean a SATA optical will not work, period? What about with 3.5 u4?

Re: ESXi Hangs during Installation on Dell PowerEdge T605

philja — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:04:52 GMT

My first thought was that my DVD drive in T605 is not SATA, but I have opened case anyway and what I see is that DVD drive is SATA.

So i have followed above advice and that was the fix. After ESXi was installed i have connect DVD drive back but it stop boot again with the same message.

So DVD need to be unplugged for all time before and after installation.

Re: ESXi Hangs during Installation on Dell PowerEdge T605

DeanWesterberg — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:50:38 GMT

Thanks jdedwards! Your solution worked for me! I pulled out the SATA DVD-ROM and installed a IDE CD-ROM from a old workstation and it works great!

I was even able to use the RAID card and am up and running on mirrored drives!

Thanks!

Re: ESXi Hangs during Installation on Dell PowerEdge T605

jdedwards — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:16:09 GMT

Follow-up: Changing the SATA to IDE DVD-ROM did the trick; installed without a hitch. I look forward to learning what ESXi can do for us now. Thanks for your help. J Edwards

Re: ESXi Hangs during Installation on Dell PowerEdge T605

jdedwards — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:00:09 GMT

Thanks for your reply and resources. I believe the problem to be the sata dvd-rom; I'm going to try installing an IDE or USB CD-ROM and see if that helps resolve this hang. I encourage others to express their thoughts and I will keep all posted when I'm able to successfully install ESXi on this T605. Minor issues can cause big headaches. Once again, thank you for your input and others, please keep your thoughts flowing in. Thanks! J Edwards

Re: ESXi Hangs during Installation on Dell PowerEdge T605

weinstein5 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:39:24 GMT

Welcome to the forums - according to the Systems HCL-http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi35_systems_guide.pdf - T605 is not supported. This of course does not mean it would not work - I would look at installing a supported i/o card - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi35_io_guide.pdf

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ESXi Hangs during Installation on Dell PowerEdge T605

jdedwards — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:40:13 GMT

When trying to install the latest release of VMware ESXi on a New Dell PowerEdge T605, it hangs during the installation on module sata.svw about midway through the installation. Any suggestions on a work around for this issue? Below is a summary of the system purchased. Please reply with any help to edwardsj@leonardisd.net

Regards,

J Edwards

PowerEdge T605	Quad Core AMD Opteron^TM^ 2350, 2.0GHz, 1Ghz HyperTransport	T65Q20	223-8764	1

Additional Processor	Quad Core AMD Opteron^TM^ 2350, 2.0GHz, 1Ghz HyperTransport	2PQ20	311-8744	2
Memory	12GB DDR2, 667MHz, 6x2GB Dual Ranked DIMMs	12G6D6D	311-8209	3
Keyboards, Mice, Displays and Related Devices	No Keyboard or Mouse Selected	NONE	310-5017	4
TCP/IP Offload Engine Enablement	LOM NIC is TOE Ready	TOE	430-2966	6
Primary Hard Drive	146GB 15k RPM Serial-Attach SCSI 3Gbps 3.5-in Cabled Hard Drive	146A15	341-6081	8
Primary Controller	SAS 6iR SAS internal RAID adapter, PCI-Express	SAS6IRC	341-6079	9
Floppy Drive	1.44MB Floppy Drive, Internal, Black	FD	341-6092	10
Network Card	Embedded Single Broadcom$#174; NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC	OBNIC	430-1764	13
Optional Internal Optical Drive	16x DVD+/-RW Drive, Internal, SATA	16XDVRW	313-5990	16
Documentation	Electronic Documentation and OpenManage DVD Kit	EDOCS	330-0179	21
Hard Drive Configuration	Add-in SAS 6/iR SATA/SAS Controller, No RAID, 1-4 Cabled Hard Drives	ASC	341-6071	27
Drive Cage Configuration	Chassis with Cabled Hard Drives	CHCBNR	341-6889	28


Power Supply	Redundant Power Supply, No Cord	RPSNC	430-2881	36
O/S Partitions	40GB Microsoft OS Partition Override	40GBPAR	420-6966	37
Power Cord	2x Power Cords, 110 volt, NEMA 5-15 Wall Plug to C14, 15 amps, 10 feet / 3m	2WL10FT	310-8509 310-8509	38