Hi everybody
I am new here so please excuse my ingorance if that is shown in my questions.
I am totally new to ESXi infrastructure. In fact I am network engineer and my target is to learn Nexus 1000v
So far I have installed ESXi Hypervisor (free version) and managed to get up and running the VSM part of the Nexus switch
I am running ESXi in a VMWorkstation 8 ..so ESXi is virtualized. Host server is Ubuntu x64, CPU: Intel Dual Core 2 Q8300, 4M RAM
Since VMWorkstion won't let me run x64 nested machines ins ESXi I will have to deploy the Virtual Center Virtual Appliance in the guest VMWare machine
Deploying this on Windows is out of question because I do not have the required resources.
Here is the nesting structure if the above are not clear enough
Ubuntux64 {VMWareWorkstation8x64
[ESXi (Nexus1000v) ]
[VCVA]
}
Although I have enabled VT-x in BIOS every time when I start the virtual machine hosting ESXi I receive a warning saying that "VT-x/EPT is disbled for this machine" but ESXi comes up and it is functional
The part that is not working and I have difficulties with is making VCVA work on VMWare
I successfuly imported the OVF in VMware and after adjusting the RAM to either of 1G 2G 3G values when I start the virtual machine it is crashing showing the screen below
Could you please tell me what I am doing wrong here or if I am trying something that is in fact impossible?
Thanks a lot
PF
PS: Am I wasting my time here? I just read on this forum (http://communities.vmware.com/message/1863761#1863761) that ESXi free can not be managed by vCenter. Is there any way I can unregister (remove the license from) my ESXi free server so I can at least use the 60 days full version trial? I guss that reinstalling will be the easiest... :smileyplain:
Last couple of lines of the vmaware log look like this
2011-11-15T21:57:58.584-05:00| vcpu-0| I120: KEYBOARD: Invalid mouse sample rate 102 Hz, using 100 instead
2011-11-15T21:57:59.460-05:00| vcpu-1| I120: SCSI0: RESET BUS
2011-11-15T21:58:00.298-05:00| vcpu-0| I120: SCSI DEVICE (scsi0:0): MODE SENSE(6) for unsupported page 0x8
2011-11-15T21:58:00.299-05:00| vcpu-0| I120: SCSI DEVICE (scsi0:0): MODE SENSE(6) for unsupported page 0x8
2011-11-15T21:58:00.300-05:00| vcpu-0| I120: SCSI DEVICE (scsi0:1): MODE SENSE(6) for unsupported page 0x8
2011-11-15T21:58:00.301-05:00| vcpu-0| I120: SCSI DEVICE (scsi0:1): MODE SENSE(6) for unsupported page 0x8
2011-11-15T21:58:00.305-05:00| vcpu-0| I120: SCSI DEVICE (scsi0:1): MODE SENSE(6) for unsupported page 0x8
2011-11-15T21:58:00.306-05:00| vcpu-0| I120: SCSI DEVICE (scsi0:0): MODE SENSE(6) for unsupported page 0x8
2011-11-15T21:58:00.968-05:00| vcpu-1| I120: DISKLIB-DDB : "longContentID" = "64da113f4ef1a644f89fda62c9f080a1" (was "16c95ca3da5fb1ce7bfd39959b3bd9f4")
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