Unable to install ESXi 3.5 U3 on IBM xSeries 225

[Stracca]

Hi all.

In our datacenter we had two host with the old version of esx 2.5.3, so we want to plan the change to ESXi.

I found al old Server IBM xSeries 225 with 2 x Intel Xeon 2.4, 2Gb RAM, 2 x NIC and 5 HDD on boardto be used as a test machine of ESXi.

I tryed to install the latest versione of ESXi 3.5 U3 also if it's not on the HW Compatibility guide but the installation freezes when it says: "Starting VMware ESXi Server:"

I've read on the forum that a lot of people succesfully installed ESXi on this type of hw.

How i can found what's the problem?

Thanks a lot

Stefano

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Moved to the VMware ESXi forum.

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
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[Dave_Mishchenko]

Welcome to the VMware Community forums. If you haven't done so, make sure you're running the latest BIOS / firmware versions. When it stops in the install can you press ALTf1 or ALTf12 and see if any errors are recorded?

[rohieb]

Hello! I am having the same problem on my machine, but I am not able to see any error messages by pressing Alt-F1 or Alt-F12. In fact, even Numlock doesn't change, and Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work also.

[GUYBRUSHTHREEPW]

Hi Stracca. Could you solve your problem? I need to install ESXi 3.5 onto IBM eServer xSeries 225 too, but, it's a production server.

Regards.

[Stracca]

Hi.

I didn't solve my problem so i had to go on an other system.

Later i found that this system (the xSeries 225) had hardware problems so i can't say that this system is or isn't good for esxi!

Sorry

Stracca