Problem installing VMWare ESXi 4.1 on Sun Fire x4450 sever
Hey Everyone
I hope someone out there can point me in the right direction. A Sun Fire x4450 server was donated to my children's school for a project that we are working on to virtualize and upgrade our infrastructure. The plan is very straight forward, install vmware 4.1esxi on the server and then setup 1 or 2 file/print/AD servers for redundancy. With every other install of VMWare ESXi 4.1 I've done on Dell and other i386 platform systems, the install only takes about 10 minutes and is simple as can be. However, on this Sun Fire x4450 box, the install hangs and sometimes even throws a pink screen of detach with the error: "Could not populate the filesystem: Boot image is corrupt". I know that the install image is fine because I've tested it on a different box. The LSI raid controller on the system is SAS1068 with an MPT Firmware version of 1.22.01.00 - IR. I've tried varying configurations and also confirmed that the Virtual Technology setting in the system Bios is enabled.
Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated as I'd hate to not be able to use this donated system.
Thanks in advance,
Randy
I hope someone out there can point me in the right direction. A Sun Fire x4450 server was donated to my children's school for a project that we are working on to virtualize and upgrade our infrastructure. The plan is very straight forward, install vmware 4.1esxi on the server and then setup 1 or 2 file/print/AD servers for redundancy. With every other install of VMWare ESXi 4.1 I've done on Dell and other i386 platform systems, the install only takes about 10 minutes and is simple as can be. However, on this Sun Fire x4450 box, the install hangs and sometimes even throws a pink screen of detach with the error: "Could not populate the filesystem: Boot image is corrupt". I know that the install image is fine because I've tested it on a different box. The LSI raid controller on the system is SAS1068 with an MPT Firmware version of 1.22.01.00 - IR. I've tried varying configurations and also confirmed that the Virtual Technology setting in the system Bios is enabled.
Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated as I'd hate to not be able to use this donated system.
Thanks in advance,
Randy
Hate to sound stupid but how can some VMs running under VMware on a single host be redundant? As I see it the chance of failure is about the same as a single host running the native OS except that there's the additional slight possibility of the hypervisor failing.
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andyalder: it's redundant only in a sense of operating system issue not VMWare nor hardware. The single host is a known single point of failure. The issue is actually getting the VMWare ESXi 4.1 installed as indicated.
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I had seen some posts on the LSI but having a hard time finding firmware update. Oracle doesn't let you just download the files. There are four 2.93GHz E7220 Xeon processors.
yes, from memory those were the models that caused issues. that model or processor was added later to the HCL.
try usb install for ESXi, you could always try ESX.
try usb install for ESXi, you could always try ESX.
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Created USB install and system worked! Thanks