Jase's Place

I took an Optiplex 620 (P4 3.4, 2GB Ram, and an 80GB Sata drive), and attempted to install ESXi (3.5u2).

Well, initially, I got a Limit CPU Id error, with a nice "please disable this in the bios" message.

The box was fairly old, and had the A03 bios loaded. A03 wouldn't let me turn this off, so I went to Dell, grabbed the latest bios update, and updated the Bios to A11. After A11 was loaded, and I disabled this setting I was off and running.

As a result, ESXi installed fine, with no other tweaks.

The drive, and nic installed without any issues.

I haven't put any VM's on it yet, but will report back.

Updated: I've put several VM's on the box, and haven't seen any issues other than the Licensing Bug.

Also, I figured I'd whack the box when the new builds came out. I decided to install ESX 3.5.0 Update 2 Refresh, and what do you know, it installed fine too!








Dave, here's another one for your list.

Labels: VMware

On July 4th, 2008, I had the privilege of visiting the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial in Hamm, Luxembourg.

This cemetery is run by the American Battle Monuments Commission.

This is an awe inspiring place that pays tribute to the fighting forces of the United States of America.

I spent several hours there looking at some of the 5,076 gravesites, and noticed several of the 371 graves for those that no one knew their name.

Fortunately, now days, it can easily be determined from DNA who a person is after the fact, unlike back then.

This cemetery is a tribute to the Americans that gave their lives when others called for help.

There is little that I can say that can describe the feelings I felt being in the presense of all of these heroes.






One hero laid to rest here, is General George S. Patton Jr.

It was very humbling seeing the final resting place for such a leader.

It was an honor and a privilege to spend my 4th of July visiting some of America's heroes.

Labels: America, Military