As DL160 G5 is not on compatibility list we use our solution only for test and knowledge enviroment.

I try:

mboot.c32 vmkernel.gz --- binmod.tgz "acpi=off" --- ienviroment.tgz --- cim.tgz --- oem.tgz --- license.tgz --- install.tgz

but the installation still hang on the point of enabling interrupts

It's version ESX 3.5i, 3.5.0_Update_2-110271

tomorrow i will try

HP Proliant DL320 R05p(eon X3065, 2GB)

ESXi installed in standard mode no tricks, and works looks normally, but...

...when I start using virtual Windows 2003 Standard Server as Terminal Server - with more than 3 concurrent session processor peak to 100% and nothing helps.

So I restart guest system but after restart its still 100 % CPU. After restarting host (ESXi) it will help but only until 3 users connected.

Finally we move this server to ESXi on DL 380 G5 (on compatibility list). Now even 10 users works normally.

So the problems with compatibility are very wide, and again I strongly suggest to use only compatible HW for VMware "production" enviroments.

I have no much time for analysis but, HOST (via Virtual infrastructure Client) reporting high utilization on guest but extremely low on host. It looks like something wrong with attaching CPU resources for guest.

Inside guest (Windows 2003 Server Standard with Terminal Services Role and third party 32bit app) there are no specific process aquiring most CPU(with list process for all users). But CPU in Windows Task Manager is on 100%.

I haven't time to run for example Process Explorer from sysinternals. Memory allocation was not very high and mostly free.

Thats all.