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Wayne
Asked: 2011-08-20 09:54:18 +0800 CST

VMware installation error on Dell PE R715

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We have just purchased 2 x Dell Power Edge R715 with the PERC H700 raid contoller, each machine has 6 x 300GB SAS drives.

I have set 2 drives up in raid 0 and 4 drives in raid 10 on each machine, but when installing ESX4 I cannot see any target disks for the installation.

This is my first time installing ESX4, am I missing something? Do I need a raid driver for ESX4? The documentation I have says that the H700 is supported.

vmware-esxi dell-poweredge dell-perc h700

1 Answers

  1. Have you tried the Dell specific .iso? If I remember correctly those are required for the Dell hardware. I'm currently stuck on my iPhone with edge, so I can't easily get a link at the moment :)

    The OEM cd images should be on the VMware.com site under the OEM tab: http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vsphere_hypervisor_esxi/4_0#drivers_tools

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