I tried to install ESXi 3i on dc7700 160Gb SATA HD with no success!

Please give me some suggestion.

The problem appear to be the HD.

Thanks

I tried to set RAID mode in SATA controller configuration but with no result. The only options are IDE and RAID.

The message is always:

Unable to find supported device to write the VMware Server 3i 3.5.0 image to.

Any other suggestion?

regards

Maurizio

As for the NIC, I used an HP Broadcom PCI-E GigE (p/n: EA833AA) in place of the onboard unit.

Cheers,

Mike

Have we been able to find a low cost solution that cost between £250 -300?

I finally got it to install and work on old hardware (my own put together system). See details below.

ASRock K7VT2 Motherboad

AMD Athlon 64, 3000+ Processor Socket A

IGB Ram

Intel Pro 1000GT Desktop Nic

Samsung 160GB IDE drive

ATI Radeon 9550 VGA Adapter

PS2 Mouse and Keyboard

ADAptec AHA 2940u2W Ultra2 scsi

This system was built about 3years ago, so not quite sure if you can still get the same stuff out there, and if you did it would be a lot cheaper than I paid. All in all this system should come under £250.

Now I am in the market to get a cheap system to run Openfiler. I hear you can do wonders with it.

It's stock out of the box. What I did do was put in an Adaptec 1210 card in it for the install (not really sure if I needed it or not) but I had one laying around at he office and threw it in and did the install.

After I got it up and running, I decided to pull the 1210 card out and just run off the normal SATA controller and she boots and runs fine.

I can get you the specs of the machine in detail if you'd like. I'll have to shut her down and take a peek, haven't looked at the hardware of that machine in 6 months or so.

Cheers!

We purchased the following components and attempted installation using the latest ESXi 3.5 Version 3.5 Update 3 | 123629 - 11/06/08

-Shuttle SX38P2 Pro,

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33Ghz,

Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 RAM,

2 x WD 500GB Drives,

HP nc360t Dual Gigabit

nvidia GeForce 6200 128mb DDR PCIe Video Card

we've followed the same setup with IDE with Legacy and still receive the error "Unable to find supported device to write the VMware ESX 3.5.0 image to"

Would you be able to provide some insight?We would greatly appreciate it.