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dilpreet Enthusiast VMware Employees
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15. Aug 1, 2008 9:56 AM in response to: hkawamorita
Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters?

dd'ing the image directly to the drive will work, but you will lose

anything else you may have on that device.

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16. Aug 1, 2008 2:45 PM in response to: dilpreet
Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters?

OK, so at the end I guess my CD was bad, as it was not completing the ESXi boot.

I was actually using a CDRW that I got from my IT, so when I tried with a regular CDR, it worked all fine.

 

So, unless other say otherwise, ESXi 3.5 Update 2 works with Dell PowerEdge SC1425.

 

It did recognize my disks and I was able to configure my datastores.

 

Folks, thanks a lot for everything.

 

Thanks and have a good weekend.

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17. Aug 1, 2008 2:51 PM in response to: hkawamorita
Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters?

Go ahead and add this system to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ESX_Server(Whitebox_HCL)

  so that others will know it works.  I think we also have a list on

the communities website as well.  I'm glad it worked out for you.

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18. Aug 1, 2008 2:54 PM in response to: hkawamorita
Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters?

What sort of storage controller does the VI client show your server as having?

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19. Aug 12, 2008 2:37 PM in response to: hkawamorita
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20. Aug 29, 2008 10:04 AM in response to: Dave.Mishchen…
Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters?

 

On my SC1425 the VI client shows the following for storage controllers

 

 

82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller

 

 

--> vmhba1    SCSI

--> vmhba32  SCSI

 

 

82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller

 

 

--> vmhba0    Block SCSI

 

 

 

 

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

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21. Aug 29, 2008 10:10 AM in response to: tomicles
Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters?

Thanks.

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22. Dec 11, 2008 5:56 PM in response to: Dave.Mishchen…
Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters?

 

Hello

 

 

I just got SC1425  to put ESXi on, but I'm getting Panic Error right after the install starts and says that can't read the .tgz file.

 

 

Could this be due to the fact the mobo has only CERC Sata controller?

 

 

I was hoping I can use this server but it looks like having more problems again

 

 

Any advice will be very apreciated

 

 

-Peter

 

 

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23. Dec 13, 2008 5:03 PM in response to: piotrmikula
Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters?

I was looking at buying this same server ..... Did you get this resolved?

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