Sooo, a virtualization blade that is not officially supported on the HCL for VMWare....
It's a great blade, but two things:
1) The drivers do not recognize the 10G NIC, which is a Broadcom Netextreme II, Model NC532i. I had to use an NC373 mezzanine.
2) Memory (this was the killer). After installing, it would throw up a code that it could not initialize the VMKernel on bootup. Memory related issue. Here are the tested methods I had to actually get it to initialize properly.
a. 8 x 4GB Memory modules populating the right banks. AND 2 x 2GB memory modules on the first two slots on the left bank.
b. 8 x 8GB Memory modules populating the right banks. AND 2 x 2GB memory modules on the first two slots on the left bank.
If anyone can figure out the NIC issue, please let me know!
