USB as a Main Storage device
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Hate to ask this question because I have heard horror stories, but is your bios/server firmware at the most current version? I've seen in the past where updating has fixed odd bios issues.
Edit: @scottalanmiller beat me to it.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
@Dashrender Oh, so flash the BIOS?
You could try that, but no - normally in the BIOS you have an option to 'set default settings' this will remove any changes you've made, then you reboot and start over tweeking the BIOS.
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@Dashrender said:
@Mike-Ralston said:
@Dashrender Oh, so flash the BIOS?
You could try that, but no - normally in the BIOS you have an option to 'set default settings' this will remove any changes you've made, then you reboot and start over tweeking the BIOS.
I might have to, I can't access the BIOS and the UEFI has now "Died", so I'm not sure what else to do.
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@coliver said:
Hate to ask this question because I have heard horror stories, but is your bios/server firmware at the most current version? I've seen in the past where updating has fixed odd bios issues.
Edit: @scottalanmiller beat me to it.
Outdated BIOS could easily be the issue.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
I might have to, I can't access the BIOS and the UEFI has now "Died", so I'm not sure what else to do.
Something is definitely, seriously wrong.
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@scottalanmiller I'm having it run a system diagnostic now. The UEFI unlocked on the 4th go, but there's no option to turn it off.
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Or, maybe it's just not supported.
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@art_of_shred said:
Or, maybe it's just not supported.
I guess I'm lost on what you are trying to do, exactly?
Are you trying to use a USB drive as a datastore for ESXi? or some other hypervisor?
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@Dashrender said:
@art_of_shred said:
Or, maybe it's just not supported.
I guess I'm lost on what you are trying to do, exactly?
Are you trying to use a USB drive as a datastore for ESXi? or some other hypervisor?
Exactly.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@art_of_shred said:
Or, maybe it's just not supported.
I guess I'm lost on what you are trying to do, exactly?
Are you trying to use a USB drive as a datastore for ESXi? or some other hypervisor?
Exactly.
I don't think it's possible. I think you can use an external HDD like that, but not a flash drive.
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What's the problem? Does ESXi not see the drive as a place you could put a VMDK?
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It's to host a Xen Server, correct?
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@Dashrender said:
What's the problem? Does ESXi not see the drive as a place you could put a VMDK?
Well, XenServer specifically tells me that Virtual Drives aren't enabled when I attempt to install to it. IT sees the USB just fine.
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Hmmm... so, maybe it's not supported?
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How hard would it be to just get a single HD to put the OS on and then use the SAN for the datastores, or whatever Xen uses?
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@Mike-Ralston said:
Well, XenServer specifically tells me that Virtual Drives aren't enabled when I attempt to install to it. IT sees the USB just fine.
Oh, this is new information. It is XenServer telling us this? We've been trying to diagnose the Dell hardware up until now. This might be a XenServer issue.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Mike-Ralston said:
Well, XenServer specifically tells me that Virtual Drives aren't enabled when I attempt to install to it. IT sees the USB just fine.
Oh, this is new information. It is XenServer telling us this? We've been trying to diagnose the Dell hardware up until now. This might be a XenServer issue.
Dell Hardware AND XenServer are telling us this.
