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ESXi Hangs during Installation on Dell PowerEdge T605

Oct 26, 2008 8:40 PM

Click to view jdedwards's profile Novice jdedwards 3 posts since
Oct 26, 2008

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 Opteron^TM^ 2350, 2.0GHz, 1Ghz HyperTransport T65Q20 223-8764 1
         
Additional Processor Quad Core AMD Opteron^TM^ 2350, 2.0GHz, 1Ghz HyperTransport 2PQ20 311-8744 2
Memory 12GB DDR2, 667MHz, 6x2GB Dual Ranked DIMMs 12G6D6D 311-8209 3
Keyboards, Mice, Displays and Related Devices No Keyboard or Mouse Selected NONE 310-5017 4
TCP/IP Offload Engine Enablement LOM NIC is TOE Ready TOE 430-2966 6
Primary Hard Drive 146GB 15k RPM Serial-Attach SCSI 3Gbps 3.5-in Cabled Hard Drive 146A15 341-6081 8
Primary Controller SAS 6iR SAS internal RAID adapter, PCI-Express SAS6IRC 341-6079 9
Floppy Drive 1.44MB Floppy Drive, Internal, Black FD 341-6092 10
Network Card Embedded Single Broadcom$#174; NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC OBNIC 430-1764 13
Optional Internal Optical Drive 16x DVD+/-RW Drive, Internal, SATA 16XDVRW 313-5990 16
Documentation Electronic Documentation and OpenManage DVD Kit EDOCS 330-0179 21
Hard Drive Configuration Add-in SAS 6/iR SATA/SAS Controller, No RAID, 1-4 Cabled Hard Drives ASC 341-6071 27
Drive Cage Configuration Chassis with Cabled Hard Drives CHCBNR 341-6889 28
         
         
Power Supply Redundant Power Supply, No Cord RPSNC 430-2881 36
O/S Partitions 40GB Microsoft OS Partition Override 40GBPAR 420-6966 37
Power Cord 2x Power Cords, 110 volt, NEMA 5-15 Wall Plug to C14, 15 amps, 10 feet / 3m 2WL10FT 310-8509310-8509 38
         

Tags: esxi, installation, poweredge, t605
Reply Re: ESXi Hangs during Installation on Dell PowerEdge T605 Oct 26, 2008 9:40 PM
Click to view weinstein5's profile Guru weinstein5 5,672 posts since
Nov 19, 2005 VMware
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 - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi35_io_guide.pdf

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Reply Re: ESXi Hangs during Installation on Dell PowerEdge T605 Oct 26, 2008 10:00 PM
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Click to view jdedwards's profile Novice jdedwards 3 posts since
Oct 26, 2008
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
Reply Re: ESXi Hangs during Installation on Dell PowerEdge T605 Oct 27, 2008 4:16 PM
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Click to view jdedwards's profile Novice jdedwards 3 posts since
Oct 26, 2008
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
Reply Re: ESXi Hangs during Installation on Dell PowerEdge T605 Dec 16, 2008 11:50 AM
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Click to view DeanWesterberg's profile Lurker DeanWesterberg 1 posts since
Dec 16, 2008

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!


Reply Re: ESXi Hangs during Installation on Dell PowerEdge T605 Dec 30, 2008 3:04 PM
Click to view philja's profile Lurker philja 1 posts since
Dec 30, 2008

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.


Reply Re: ESXi Hangs during Installation on Dell PowerEdge T605 Apr 4, 2009 12:14 PM
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Click to view peterfilardo's profile Lurker peterfilardo 2 posts since
Apr 3, 2009
Does that mean a SATA optical will not work, period? What about with 3.5 u4?
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