Comments on: Installing VMware ESX and ESXi 3.5 on an HP Proliant ML115 G5 Quad Core.

By: arif

arif — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:52:54 +0000

hi,

anyone plz answer this question.

Can an HP ML-115 G5 be fitted with:

1. a raid card that supports hot plugging
2. be connected to 2x SATA hard-drives within removovable metal-cases eg. from startech

so as to make the system HOT Pluggable!??

.. just trying to find the cheapest hw supported virtualisation hot-pluggable server.

many thanks.

By: matko

matko — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:30:41 +0000

Hi there,

I found this Site through Google.
I have bought a HP ML 110 G5 with 2 * 160 GB WD Drives, 4 GB Kingston RAM, 3 GHz Intel Xeon CPU with a Smart Array E200 128 MB Controller.

Since I have unpacked the Server, I am trying to find out why this Server is so extremely slow. I have installed ESXi 4.0. In the ESXi I have installed Win7 Ultimate. The Installation took 1.5 hours!!!!
The ISO was located on the same Datastore.

When I look at the Disk Performance in ESXi, I see that it only reaches 5764 KBps. What are you guys having?

I am running the 2 160 Gig Drives in RAID1.

I have also tried to use the Onboard SATA Controller and had the same slow Performance.

I have tested the same Win7 installation at Work on a Dell Optiplex 745 and the installation was finished in 15 Minutes!!!!

I think that my ML110 G5 has a faulty Mainboard because the Disk Speed is extremly slow.

I really dont know what else I can try.

Has anyone else experienced such kind of a thing?

Greets from Switzerland
Matt

By: Phil B

Phil B — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:44:06 +0000

Hi Enrico,

Did you ever get a fix for your ESX 3.5 install? I’m trying to install ESX 3.5 U4 onto an ML115 G5 and having the same issues you had.

Regards,

Phil.

By: Installing VMware ESX and ESXi 3.5 on an HP Proliant ML115 G5 Quad Core « Snip IT Blog

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:19:55 +0000

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By: Test box for VM's

Test box for VM's — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:37:21 +0000

[...] too expensive either. Just been looking at that a ML115 This link seems to confirm what you say Installing VMware ESX and ESXi 3.5 on an HP Proliant ML115 G5 Quad Core. | TechHead.co.uk and there's one here HP ML115 'Ideal Virtualisation Testbed' Bundle | [...]

By: msuk

msuk — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:44:40 +0000

Hi,

See this post, you also need to upgrade the ILO firmware from 3.05 to 3.11 and the fan problem goes away

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1250430247650+28353475&threadId=1361154