{"id":111,"date":"2008-07-30T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/vmware-esxi-optiplex-620.html"},"modified":"2008-07-30T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T17:31:00","slug":"vmware-esxi-optiplex-620","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/vmware-esxi-optiplex-620\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware ESXi &#8211; Optiplex 620"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/gx620-716115-702449.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/gx620-716115-702445.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I took an Optiplex 620 (P4 3.4, 2GB Ram, and an 80GB Sata drive), and attempted to install ESXi (3.5u2).<\/p>\n<p>Well, initially, I got a Limit CPU Id error, with a nice &#8220;please disable this in the bios&#8221; message.<\/p>\n<p>The box was fairly old, and had the A03 bios loaded.  A03 wouldn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, ESXi installed fine, with no other tweaks.<\/p>\n<p>The drive, and nic installed without any issues.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t put any VM&#8217;s on it yet, but will report back.<\/p>\n<p>Updated: I&#8217;ve put several VM&#8217;s on the box, and haven&#8217;t seen any issues other than the Licensing Bug.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I figured I&#8217;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!<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/esx250u2r-792941.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/esx250u2r-792936.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dave, here&#8217;s another one for your list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}