Comments on: Building a Low Cost (Cheap) VMware ESX Test Server.

By: Kiwi Si

Kiwi Si — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:40:54 +0000

Hi Velmueugan,

As the error suggests it sounds like the Intel 82578DC Gigabit Ethernet Controller drivers are not present and is not compatible with ESX 3.5. Have you tried ESX 4.0 yet as this has a much broader set of components (even unofficially) that it supports.

The VT technology that you enabled in the BIOS is only to do with the CPU and won’t have any impact on the issue you are experiencing. You may want to consider buying a PCI/PCIe based compatible network card such as one with the Intel Pro chipset on it – these can usually picked up quite cheaply on EBay.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Simon

By: velmueugan

velmueugan — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:18:19 +0000

Hi,

I purchased new computer.the configuration is i3 530 2.9Ghz processor,DH55TC Motherboard,2GB DDR3 1333Mhz RAM,500GB Seagate Sata Harddisk,Samsun Sata DVD drive.i am trying to install VMware ESX 3.5.But it’s showing error “Unable to find a supported device to write the VMware ESX Server 3i 3.5.0 image to and No driver found. Select Driver/Use a Driver Disk/Back”.How to install VMWare ESX 3.5.also i am install ESX 4.0.it’s showing error”No compatible network adapter found.please consult the products” and “Network-adapters returned critical failure” in vmkernal mode (ALT+F12).

I enabled VT technology in bios,

http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/DH55TC/DH55TC-overview.htm

Please help me.Thanks in advance,Velmurugan

By: Kiwi Si

Kiwi Si — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:56:31 +0000

Hi Arif,

I’m not too sure what you’re after – are you wanting to virtualize two Linux based machines for running websites?

Cheers,

Simon

By: arif

arif — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:12:09 +0000

hi,

looks like a big cone from hp. they produce a cheap machine calling it a server but that doesn’t have a good built in raid and nic that is workable with linux – i don’t think this is just an issue with vmware!

a good nic and a sata raid controller could cost you as much as the machine each.

hp seems to have gone into bed with windows, as these lower priced machines support windows platform with ease.

i would be grateful if you can show all the steps of virtualisation. i am still confused, because it seems to go into a gui, and i am looking to run two websites from a virtualised machine with good level of security and i cant find all the info.

thanks.

arif.

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By: yuri

yuri — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:56:41 +0000

I’ve just done some extended testing with a DL185 and an e200 controller. I have 4×750GB SATA drives in a RAID10. One thing I kept noticing was that disk perf. was no better (often much worse) than a stand alone SATA drive! So I downloaded the ATTO disk benchmark and went to work. I found out the following: if Array Accelerator is on – disk write performance is poor. Even setting it to 0%READ and 100%WRITE disk writes are slow. The only way to get decent performance is to disable Array Accelerator in the HP Array Configurator and enable the on disk cache. This is problematic, because it greatly increases the risk to data integrity, but tat risk can probably be adequately mitigated through a good UPS (and the monitoring of said UPS). Doing the above took average disk writes from ~50MB /Sec to nearly ~200MB /Sec. So if you are finding performance issues with your installs on HP gear – this may be a place to look. It’s easy to try and if it’s a test rig then you have little to lose.

Cheers.