Hello. So I have been using VMWare Server for a long while now, and I decided to get the free ESXi download and start trying to use that from now on. Using a red hat OS, server ran pretty solid for me with few complaints. With esxi, I am having a few problems right out of the gate that I can't seem to find answers on by searching.
I use RIS for all my server builds, and it's worked awesome up to now. With this esxi server, the first vm I built (Windows Server 2003 std) worked great. Completed in less than 15 minutes, I think. Awesome! So, I go to build the next server, and it blue screens when it's in text mode setup and is trying to start windows (the handoff between PXE to windows nic driver) and says that there's a duplicate IP address and shut it down to prevent damage. Once I power it off, when I turn it back on, I just get a flashing cursor and it goes nowhere. The event log then says that the CPU has been disabled by the gues operating system, and you need to power off or reset the machine... which I do, but it is forever doomed to only the cursor. It'll also drop an information bar saying error connecting to /bin/vmx process. So, I delete the machine, recreate it, and the same process all over again. I turned off the other machine that successfully installed, which did not make a difference.
I am running VMWare ESX Server 3i, 3.5.0, 110271 (with the HP Management Components) on an HP DL380 G3 with 3GB ram.
Any help is appreciated! Thanks!