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2 Replies Last post: Nov 3, 2008 10:08 AM by grcumm
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UNSUPPORTED ESXi 3.5u2 Installable on Dell Latitude D630 as portable test/eval/demo

Nov 3, 2008 9:22 AM

Click to view grcumm's profile Novice grcumm 6 posts since
Dec 10, 2006
I did this more as a demonstation to myself to see if it was posible.

Platform: Dell Latitude D630, BIOS A12, Intel Core2 Duo T7100, 1GiB RAM (yes, VERY low), ICH8M chipset, BCM5755M onboard NIC.
BIOS Config: REQUIRES change of SATA operation to ATA (Onboard Devices/SATA Operation; not AHCI; requires that Flash Module is disabled); Recommend enabling Multi Core Support (Performance) and Virtualization(POST Behavior). Uncertain on Dynamic Acceleration and SpeedStep Enable (both under Performance; I have both enabled at the moment).

Installed directly from CD (VMware-VMvisor-InstallerCD-3.5.0_Update_2-110271.i386.iso) with no issues to the SATA HDD. Automatically created a VMFS datastore in the free space of the HDD (as expected).

As to be expected, the SATA optical drive is not usable within ESXi.
Reply Re: UNSUPPORTED ESXi 3.5u2 Installable on Dell Latitude D630 as portable test/eval/demo Nov 3, 2008 10:04 AM
Click to view Anders Gregersen's profile Expert Anders Gregersen 566 posts since
Jun 16, 2004
That is great news, I've been looking for a laptop that works out of the box. Thanks!
Reply Re: UNSUPPORTED ESXi 3.5u2 Installable on Dell Latitude D630 as portable test/eval/demo Nov 3, 2008 10:08 AM
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Click to view grcumm's profile Novice grcumm 6 posts since
Dec 10, 2006
It appears that the SATA HDD and network (iSCSI, NFS, etc) are the only storage options.
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