Looking for assistance with building my 3 Node VSAN Home Lab. This discussion entry has a lot of detail to assist anyone else in the same boat as me (now or future).
The Objective:
Operate a home lab with ESXi 5.5U1 where the primary storage is VSAN. Requirement: 3 Hosts with at least 2 Cores and 8GB RAM, and at least one SSD and one SATA drive per host.
The Problem:
When I try to install ESXi 5.5 U1 on my Host (ASUS build details below), I get the message "Error loading /tools.t00 Fatal Error: 10 (Out of Resources)" during the install process. Install process is one USB Flash drive to another.
When I install ESXi 5.1 U1 on the same system, everything works perfectly. Install process is one USB Flash drive to another.
Have not tried ESXi 5.5 yet.
What have I done so far? Too many things to mention, but here is where I made some progress.
Customised the ESXi installer images to support the following (as per ESXi 5.1U, Z87-PRO, Adaptec ASR-6805E , VMware Front Experience: How to make your unsupported SATA AHCI Controller work with ESXi 5.5 and http://www.derekseaman.com/2013/08/building-haswell-esxi-server-vsan.html😞
Configured the following "Advanced" BIOS settings (F7 option):
What BIOS settings/configurations had no impact/weird behaviour?
What do I plan to do?
What is the ESXi Host hardware configuration?
Once I get it working, I will update this thread and provide a detailed write-up at http://www.vcdx133.com/
Upgrade from ESXi 5.1 Update 1 to ESXi 5.5 Update 1 via esxcli worked.
Intel Z87 Serial ATA controller is not recognised by ESXi. Not sure which driver is missing, but ASMedia Serial ATA controller does work.
Hi
Welcome to communities.
First need to figure out HCL list .
Make sure all hardware are in compatible list.
Upgrade from ESXi 5.1 Update 1 to ESXi 5.5 Update 1 via esxcli worked.
Intel Z87 Serial ATA controller is not recognised by ESXi. Not sure which driver is missing, but ASMedia Serial ATA controller does work.
Full breakdown on this:
http://vcdx133.com/2014/05/23/baby-dragon-triplets-vsan-home-lab/