Installing to a new VM from .iso, with a 2 vCPU, 2GB RAM VM.
Booting up from iso:














Success!

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Installing to a new VM from .iso, with a 2 vCPU, 2GB RAM VM.
Booting up from iso:
Success!
I had a need to install and setup a Windows 8 VM. I have an original install DVD, so attached a USB DVD to my HP DL380 server and was planning on setting up a VM installed from the DVD. Some time later waiting for the ESXi console to be available, it was not responding and wondered what was going on. Started up the Remote Console option from iLO and found that the server had booted from the DVD. Yeah, that’s not gonna work 🙂
After going through all the setup options but before it gets to starting the actual install on an ESXi VM I get the error:
“ERROR: The disc you inserted is not a Solaris OS CD/DVD”
From this post here about the same error on a Dell server (I’m installing on a VM on an HP DL380 G7) with Solaris driver issues with ATAPI CD/DVD devices, I changed the virtual CD drive on my VM from SATA to IDE, and can now get past the error.
So I got caught up with the idea of running a rack mount server at home and setting up virtualization to run a ‘bunch-o-stuff’. As you do. Having never done anything with enterprise server hardware before (although I did recently set up Proxmox virtualization on my Mac Pro), naturally I have a ton of questions:
So many options 🙂