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ESXi Hangs during Installation on Dell PowerEdge T605

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

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J Edwards

PowerEdge T605

Quad Core AMD OpteronTM 2350, 2.0GHz, 1Ghz HyperTransport

T65Q20

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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

[310-8509]

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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 -

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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 -

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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

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jdedwards
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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

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DeanWesterberg
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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!

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philja
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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.

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peterfilardo
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Does that mean a SATA optical will not work, period? What about with 3.5 u4?

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