I promised some more details on the R200 and ESXi 4.0.
Full hardware spec:
- Server: Dell PowerEdge R200
- Processors: 1x Intel Xeon X3320 2.5GHz Quad Core
- Memory: 6GiB, DDR2 667MHz ECC
- Disk space: 1x640GB SATA + 1x80GB SATA
- Storage controller: Intel ICH9
- NIC: 2x Broadcom BCM5721, 1x Intel PRO/1000PT PCI-E Dual Port
- OS: VMware ESXi 4.0
- Note: 1U Rack
ESXi 4.0 is installed to one of the SATA disk drives. Both my R200′s are members of a DRS/DPM cluster. The R200 supports both Wake-On-LAN and IPMI from vSphere.
3 comments
Bert Mengerink says:
September 6, 2009 at 21:46 (UTC 2)
I just have set-up a very cheap and small ESXi machine on an ACER X5810:
Processor 1x Intel Q8300 2,5 GHz Quad Core
Memory: 6Gb
Diskspace 1x 750Gb and 1Gb USB-stick
OS: VMware ESXi 4.0
Box very small cabinet.
ESXi 4.0 is installed on the USB-memory stick of 1 Gb and the datastore is 750 Gb. I am running at the moment 10 different operating systems on it, including Windows XP, Vista, CentOS and Ubuntu.
It is very fast and the Machines seems to be at normal speed.
nick says:
October 16, 2009 at 17:10 (UTC 2)
hi,
I sent you a message a good few months back when you had tried your r200 with esxi3.5. I have a Dell R200, with 1 x Intel quad core,Xeon X3330,2.66Ghz, 1333Mhz bus.Embedded SATA 2 x 250Gb.memory = 4bg ecc DDR2, 800mhz, 32 mb video memory.
When I try and boot with the esxi4.0, I doesn’t happen, now I get a screen full of crazy coloured pixels. Can you give me a little advice….is there something I need to enable or disable in the biase? . I did notice that there is a reference to virtualization technology in the biase under the cpu, and this is disabled?
I’m afraid this stuff is not my strong point. I have VMware server running on it……but I would like to play with ESXI 4.0
Thanks
nick
Peter says:
June 17, 2011 at 13:59 (UTC 2)
i hav a Dell Poweredge r200 with: 4g memory, intel core 2 duo e8600, 2ter Hdd, the processor does not enable Hyper – V pls kindly tell me how i can configure the processor to enable virtualization, according to Dell site it is possible but i dont know how.
Peter