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shaitan667
Joined: Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:58 am
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 My first adventure with ESXi Hi all. With the help of these forums, I have successfully setup ESXi 4.1u1 on the following system - ASUS M4A87/TD-USB3 Motherboard - Latest BIOS, USB3, Audio, and C1E disabled, onboard Realtek 8168/8111E ethernet controller working(this was the biggest issue) AMD Phenom x6 1055t 16GB GEIL DDR3-1333MHz 5x WD Green 1TB hdds A big thanks to the Customizing oem.tgz threads  So far only have TurnKey File Server running on it, Plan to have SmoothWall, and Windows 2008R2 as well.
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| Sat Jun 04, 2011 6:11 am |
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njan4u
Joined: Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:41 am
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Re: My first adventure with ESXi Could you please detail the work..especially related to realtek driver
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shaitan667
Joined: Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:58 am
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Re: My first adventure with ESXi In all honesty - it's not worth the hassle with onboard Realtek ethernet. I ended up getting 3x Intel Pro/1000MT dual port NICs off ebay for like $25 each. (Only got 3 cause they were $AUD105 to buy from an australian supplier)
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shaitan667
Joined: Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:58 am
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Re: My first adventure with ESXi To expand upon this a bit more (I noticed my post is linked from the main HCL now) - You can get the onboard Realtek ethernet working, but it is just not worth it - I went through about 3 or 4 different installs until it did work with various drivers. Throughput speed is very inconsistent and not very fast, and the device will fall over under heavy use - this requires a full system restart.
You are much better just getting an Intel ethernet controller.
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ultrapain
Joined: Mon May 25, 2009 3:53 pm
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Re: My first adventure with ESXi Thanks for the information. To be clear, the onboard SATA controller worked without modification to oem.tgz?
Thanks,
Dave
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VMWare ESXi 4.1
Asus M4A785TD-M EVO
(o/s on thumb drive)
Athlon II X4 630 @ 2.8GHz
16GB G-Skill Ripjaws DDR3-1333 RAM
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gmartin123
Joined: Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:44 am
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Re: My first adventure with ESXi Hello, how are you doing? did you try to install ESX with a ICH 10R SATA controller? I'm not able to do this. I think that I should add the driver to installation, but I can't find the driver... Thanks in advance
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gmartin123
Joined: Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:44 am
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Re: My first adventure with ESXi Hi all, is there any way to install ESXi with RAID ICH 10r, It doesn't matter if I need to modify the iso... I just need the drivers to do that... and of course be sure you can do this
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Dave.Mishchenko
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Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:13 pm
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Re: My first adventure with ESXi gmartin123 wrote: Hi all, is there any way to install ESXi with RAID ICH 10r, It doesn't matter if I need to modify the iso... I just need the drivers to do that... and of course be sure you can do this What mode do you have the controller in? _________________Dave Mishchenko VMware vExpert 2009-2013  Now available - VMware ESXi: Planning, Implementation, and SecurityAlso available - vSphere Quick Start Guide
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gmartin123
Joined: Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:44 am
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Re: My first adventure with ESXi Do you mean if it's on RAID or SATA on bios? It's on RAID, configured RAID 1+0. During the installation it doesn't detect the RAID, but four disks are detected Ok
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