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Re: Installing ESXi 5.5 onto HP Proliant G7 N54L

Firstly, the hardware is not listed in the VMware HCL, if you have a support agreement with VMware, You will not get complete support for the unsupported hardware. These guides will help you to install...

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Re: Installing ESXi 5.5 onto HP Proliant G7 N54L

Thanks for the replies. HP have their own VMWare Install that has been used on this server before, as has the main version. I am having an install issue with it, but I think it is down to the USB/ISO...

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Re: Esxi5.1 not recognizing my RAID 10 virtual drive

I got the same issue as MirFurQ.The Cisco Image did not work. IKE

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Please help !!!!!!!!

Hello VMware community. Need a help from  you.  I have configured bios of a physical system to connect to an iSCSI target. I want to install ESX 5.5i on the iSCSI target and boot the  physical system...

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Re: Please help !!!!!!!!

I didn't personally worked on the ESXi booting from ISCSI, But looks like the below KB can throw some light on your issue. How to configure ESXi to boot via Software iSCSI? | VMware vSphere Blog -...

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Re: Please help !!!!!!!!

Thanks a lot Bala for the quick reply.Actually I have followed this link for my setup. All steps work fine. I am only stuck at Steps to install ESXi onto an iSCSI LUN via Software iSCSI . The link says...

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Re: Please help !!!!!!!!

You have to make sure that the NIC and the Hardware is fully supported and the configuration is correct. Since, Login to the ISCSI target is successful but you cannot see the LUN info, you might want...

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Re: Please help !!!!!!!!

Yes i tried adding the same iSCSI target lun to an ESX host using vsphere client. I was able to discover and mount it. i was able to create datastore also on it. only problem is that it is not listed...

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ESXi ON a laptop

I think this question has been asked before. I installed esxi 5.5 on a desktop and installed vSphere Client on a separate desktop to manage the server and build VM's. The question is if i build a esxi...

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Re: ESXi ON a laptop

If this is only for learning purposes, you can try the follow configuration: 1. install a operating system on your laptop, for example: Windows 8.1;2. install VMware Workstation on top of Windows...

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Re: ESXi ON a laptop

If you are wiping your laptop clean and installing ESXi on the laptop that way, you would need another machine within your network that could connect via c# client. if you install vCenter server you...

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Re: ESXi ON a laptop

So there is nothing that can manage a server on the server?Server must be managed remotely? Correct? Thank you for the answers.

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Adding a drive to ESXi

I installed ESXi "first time" on a desktop with two hard drivers.Server is up and running. However i can only use the hard drive the server is installed on. Can someone please point me in the right...

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Re: ESXi ON a laptop

Ogeccut wrote: So there is nothing that can manage a server on the server?Server must be managed remotely? Correct? Thank you for the answers.ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor.. you cannot provision...

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Re: Adding a drive to ESXi

Welcome to the Community, assuming the second disk is recognized and shows up under "Storage Adapters", you will need to create a datastore on this drive, i.e. format it. Do do this click the "Add...

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Re: Adding a drive to ESXi

Thank you for the answer. Right now i am managing the server using vSphere Client.  Under the cinfiguration tab i found "Add Storage..." however when i am going through the wizard i am getting an...

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PXE installation HP Image

Hi,I am trying to install esxi using PXE.I can install Esxi not HP Image but can't install HP image as a "VMware-ESXi-5.5.0-Update1-1623387-HP-5.73.17-Mar2014" or...

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Re: PXE installation HP Image

Hi,what HP Hardware are you using?Frank

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Re: PXE installation HP Image

HP ProLiant BL460C Gen8

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Re: PXE installation HP Image

What about installing esxi without pxe? Attache the HP iso image to your ilo interface.Are you able to install esxi?Frank

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