Question on Reinstalling VMWare and Guest VMs
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Install in process.
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two down. the big one now going (SQL Server)
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Did you end up using the Dell ESXi ISO here or just the one you can download from VMWare? This is more for my own curiosity than anything. I had some issues on a Dell R510 recently and could only resolve them by using the Dell ESXi ISO.
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@NetworkNerd said:
Did you end up using the Dell ESXi ISO here or just the one you can download from VMWare? This is more for my own curiosity than anything. I had some issues on a Dell R510 recently and could only resolve them by using the Dell ESXi ISO.
Dell has an ISO? Seriously, I never bothered to look. I know these were installed 5.0 with the VMWare Free license originally. After buying Essentials a few weeks back, I simply downloaded the 5.5 ISO. Today, I installed it to the internal USB (32GB drive) and configured the 8 SFF 1TB drives I stuck in it as a RAID10.
This server is a T610. There is also a T410 running on 4x 500GB 3.5" drives in a RAID 5. I'll be migrating those VM's to the T610 next weekend now that I have room. Then I'll reconfigure that one too. Need to find a drive solution for it though since it has 6x slots for 3.5" drives and I only have the 4 hot plug chassis that are currently in use. Would be nice to reuse 2 of the 2.5" drive I just yanked since they were 500GB too. -
@JaredBusch said:
@NetworkNerd said:
Did you end up using the Dell ESXi ISO here or just the one you can download from VMWare? This is more for my own curiosity than anything. I had some issues on a Dell R510 recently and could only resolve them by using the Dell ESXi ISO.
Dell has an ISO? Seriously, I never bothered to look. I know these were installed 5.0 with the VMWare Free license originally. After buying Essentials a few weeks back, I simply downloaded the 5.5 ISO. Today, I installed it to the internal USB (32GB drive) and configured the 8 SFF 1TB drives I stuck in it as a RAID10.
I would not have looked either had I not had purple screen of death issues when using the VMWare ISO. It just so happens all my troubles went away by going with the Dell ISO. That has only ever happened to me on the Dell server I mention above. I installed the ISO on a HP server and a Cisco server with no issues prior to that experience.
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All the big server vendors have their own ISOs so that they can package in their drivers and monitoring software.
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Well I will give the Dell ISO a try when I redo the T410.
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I will look into it @katieunitrends. As always you are awesome.
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