FreeBSD v7.0 on ESXi

[bytemind]

Hi,

I can see in the comp. doc that i can run freebsd 6.2 under ESXi - Can i also run FreeBSD 7.0 under ESXi?

/ Ebbe

[Dave_Mishchenko]

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Dave Mishchenko

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[Thomas_Prophett]

Goodday,

I'm currently using FreeBSD 7.0 on my two Dell 860s successfully for the past 2weeks. It's not offically spported as you've pointed out.

The only issues that i've come across are on a rare occastion during boot / reboot its seems to hang. And this is fixed by performing a 'reset'.

[bytemind]

It hangs? Ohh thats not good, my Dell is in a hosting centre, and i cant risk going there for a reboot.

[Thomas_Prophett]

Hi,

Maybe i wasn't clear. In the event of the FreeBSD 7.0 VM hanging during boot, you can login via the VI client and perform a reset on that particular VM.

[bytemind]

DOHH

Ofcourse you can do that, sorry!

[bytemind]

How do you access the dell server administrator (the web interface, it authenticates up against windows on my server) when you run ESXi?

[Thomas_Prophett]

You don't. I don't know of anyway the Server Administrator would function without being installed on top of a supported OS. ESXi displays sensory data via one of the tabs. Or if you've got a DRAC installed you can also retrieve sensory data from that.

[bytemind]

Okay - But how do you monitor the harddrives status? I would like to know when it shows "predicted failure"

[Thomas_Prophett]

That's a very good question. I'm not sure how you would do this.

One idea is if somehow your able to install an agent(from dell or LSI) inside of ESXi to monitor the internal RAID card .... I'll have a dig around

[Thomas_Prophett]

Please see:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/122930?tstart=10