When trying to install the latest release of VMware ESXi on a New Dell PowerEdge T605, it hangs during the installation on module sata.svw about midway through the installation. Any suggestions on a work around for this issue? Below is a summary of the system purchased. Please reply with any help to edwardsj@leonardisd.net
Regards,
J Edwards
PowerEdge T605 | Quad Core AMD OpteronTM 2350, 2.0GHz, 1Ghz HyperTransport | T65Q20 | 1 | |
Additional Processor | Quad Core AMD OpteronTM 2350, 2.0GHz, 1Ghz HyperTransport | 2PQ20 | 2 | |
Memory | 12GB DDR2, 667MHz, 6x2GB Dual Ranked DIMMs | 12G6D6D | 3 | |
Keyboards, Mice, Displays and Related Devices | No Keyboard or Mouse Selected | NONE | 4 | |
TCP/IP Offload Engine Enablement | LOM NIC is TOE Ready | TOE | 6 | |
Primary Hard Drive | 146GB 15k RPM Serial-Attach SCSI 3Gbps 3.5-in Cabled Hard Drive | 146A15 | 8 | |
Primary Controller | SAS 6iR SAS internal RAID adapter, PCI-Express | SAS6IRC | 9 | |
Floppy Drive | 1.44MB Floppy Drive, Internal, Black | FD | 10 | |
Network Card | Embedded Single Broadcom$#174; NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC | OBNIC | 13 | |
Optional Internal Optical Drive | 16x DVD+/-RW Drive, Internal, SATA | 16XDVRW | 16 | |
Documentation | Electronic Documentation and OpenManage DVD Kit | EDOCS | 21 | |
Hard Drive Configuration | Add-in SAS 6/iR SATA/SAS Controller, No RAID, 1-4 Cabled Hard Drives | ASC | 27 | |
Drive Cage Configuration | Chassis with Cabled Hard Drives | CHCBNR | 28 | |
Power Supply | Redundant Power Supply, No Cord | RPSNC | 36 | |
O/S Partitions | 40GB Microsoft OS Partition Override | 40GBPAR | 37 | |
Power Cord | 2x Power Cords, 110 volt, NEMA 5-15 Wall Plug to C14, 15 amps, 10 feet / 3m | 2WL10FT | 38 | |
Welcome to the forums - according to the Systems HCL-[http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi35_systems_guide.pdf] - T605 is not supported. This of course does not mean it would not work - I would look at installing a supported i/o card -
If you find this or any other answer useful please consider awarding points by marking it helpful or correct -
Welcome to the forums - according to the Systems HCL-[http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi35_systems_guide.pdf] - T605 is not supported. This of course does not mean it would not work - I would look at installing a supported i/o card -
If you find this or any other answer useful please consider awarding points by marking it helpful or correct -
Thanks for your reply and resources. I believe the problem to be the sata dvd-rom; I'm going to try installing an IDE or USB CD-ROM and see if that helps resolve this hang. I encourage others to express their thoughts and I will keep all posted when I'm able to successfully install ESXi on this T605. Minor issues can cause big headaches. Once again, thank you for your input and others, please keep your thoughts flowing in. Thanks! J Edwards
Follow-up: Changing the SATA to IDE DVD-ROM did the trick; installed without a hitch. I look forward to learning what ESXi can do for us now. Thanks for your help. J Edwards
Thanks jdedwards! Your solution worked for me! I pulled out the SATA DVD-ROM and installed a IDE CD-ROM from a old workstation and it works great!
I was even able to use the RAID card and am up and running on mirrored drives!
Thanks!
My first thought was that my DVD drive in T605 is not SATA, but I have opened case anyway and what I see is that DVD drive is SATA.
So i have followed above advice and that was the fix. After ESXi was installed i have connect DVD drive back but it stop boot again with the same message.
So DVD need to be unplugged for all time before and after installation.
Does that mean a SATA optical will not work, period? What about with 3.5 u4?