Slow ESXi 3.5 Boot

[TheTone]

My ESi 3.5 sever takes a very long time to boot. It gets stuck on the vmfs2 loaded succsessfully. Is there a way to speed this up? I think it is because I am using software iSCSI but not sure. I have tried lowering the maximum number of LUNS to scan to 5 but it does not help. Is there a supported way of disabling vmfs2 and any other methods of speeding the boot process up?

Thanks

Tony

[AndreTheGiant · Accepted solution]

How much time is required to have the system up and running?

If you have software iSCSI then system could be 1-5 min slower then normal.

For vmfs2 see:

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/03/13/disabling-the-vmfs-2-module-exploring-the-next-generation-of...

Andre

[TheTone]

It must have been somthing to do with thw way the networking was setup as now it is booting up fast. Thanks for the tips though?

Tony