Dell PE R610 and vsphere 4.1 essentials plus

[Rodders71]

Hi All,

Am I missing something obvious here.

I have 2 Dell PE R610s which I am trying to install vsphere 4.1 essentials plus on to, I have purchased the license, but they will not boot from the CD/DVD. I downloaded the software from the VMWARE site and copied it to CD and DVD, but They will not boot from it. Intrestingly though I have an ESXi 4.0 cd which they do from no problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[a_p_]

First step would be to verify the MD5 check sum of the downloaded ISO file.

Second step, try to boot form the CD on any other PC/Server to verify it's bootable at all.

André

[a_p_]

... and copied it to CD and DVD ...

Please don't mind me asking. How did you copy it to the CD/DVD? Did you burn the ISO as a file or did you burn it as an image?

André

[Rodders71]

Well I have copied the ISO straight on to disc and I have also mounted the ISO image and copied the files to disc, still no joy.

[schepp]

put that disk in your desktop. Do you see the .iso on that disk? If yes that's the problem.

Use a burning software and use the option "burn iso".

Regards

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

Both ways you tried won't work.

In your CD burning application you should find s.th. like "Burn Image" form an ISO.

André

[Rodders71]

Thanks all for your input. I was being a complete fool!

I have now got it working.

Many thanks.