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5 Replies Last post: May 1, 2009 12:41 AM by Dave.Mishchenko
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Dell T105 + ESXi

Mar 31, 2009 7:50 AM

Click to view BLK000's profile Novice BLK000 14 posts since
Mar 30, 2009

Well I can confirm that I have a Dell PowerEdge T105 running smoothly with ESXi, This system is running from a USB stick thats plugged into the motherboard. No issues!

Spec

Dual Core Opteron 1216 2.4Ghz
2Gb Ram
250Gb SATA Drive
1 Onboard gigabit NIC + 1 3Com 100Mbps NIC

The system at the moment has one VM running Windows Server 2003 Standard RS2, I have yet to install WSUS for some serious performance testing.
Reply Re: Dell T105 + ESXi Apr 30, 2009 9:28 AM
Click to view techmo's profile Novice techmo 8 posts since
Apr 30, 2009
I'm novice to ESXi. I guess You mean you installed ESXI from Internal UBS drive. Is that correct?

I am trying to install ESXI on Dell T100 but getting an error: "Unable to find a supported devide to write the image" when trying to install from DVD.

Did you face this issue?

Reply Re: Dell T105 + ESXi Apr 30, 2009 9:47 AM
Click to view SCMHenry's profile Lurker SCMHenry 2 posts since
Apr 30, 2009

I'm about to attempt the same on an Athlon based T105, with 8Gb of RAM and a 1.5Tb SATA drive.

Any tips on how to install ESX3i to boot from USB?

Reply Re: Dell T105 + ESXi Apr 30, 2009 1:58 PM
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Click to view SCMHenry's profile Lurker SCMHenry 2 posts since
Apr 30, 2009
Nevermind.... I stumbled my way through it... and it works as expected.
Reply Re: Dell T105 + ESXi Apr 30, 2009 2:08 PM
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Click to view techmo's profile Novice techmo 8 posts since
Apr 30, 2009

Were you able to install on Hard Disk or just using it from USB?

Do you know if there are any risks to run ESXi from USB?

Reply Re: Dell T105 + ESXi May 1, 2009 12:41 AM
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Click to view Dave.Mishchenko's profile Guru Dave.Mishchenko 8,863 posts since
Nov 15, 2005 Moderator
You'll want to use a quality USB 2.0 certified USB flash drive. And regardless of where you run ESXi from (flash drive / hard drive) you should regularly backup your ESXi config in addition to the VMs - http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/esx_3i_rcli/vicfg-cfgbackup.php.
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