Enable Intel Virtual Technology on DL580

[defilpogianluca]

From White Paper "Implementing Microsoft Windows Serve 2008 RC0 on HP Proliant servers" from HP site.

I have found that to enable hardware-assisted virtualization on RBSU:

- disable Processor Hyper-treading

- Enable No-Execute Memory Protection

- Enable Intel Virtualization Technology

This configuration can be applied also to VMWARE VI 3.5?

[Texiwill]

Hello,

You will need to use the specific BIOS settings that HP recommends for VMware ESX. Unfortunately, I do not know the site they have all that information anymore, it keeps changing.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education. CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354, As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

[bradley4681]

To enable it in 3.5 you just need to enable it in the bios, there are no other settings in esx that need to be changed. also you will see little performance improvement but it will enable you to run 64bit guests.

i have 3 DL580 G5's and I have it disabled because we have no plans for 64bit on that cluster.

Cheers,

Bradley Sessions

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[Texiwill]

Hello,

Your BIOS should also have Full Table APIC selected at least. There may be more settings for that model. But for Intel-VT you just set it in the BIOS.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

====

Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education. CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354

As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization