ESX 3.0.2 advices

acrispiels · Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:03 am

Actually testing Starwind 3.5 with an ESX 3.0.2, here are a few questions.

Both are correctly connected, no problem about that ;-)

But which type of device is the best for ESX ?

For the moment, I only use image file device and disk bridge device.

And I'm not able to install a simple Win2k3 even if the lun is correctly detected/connected.

I've tryed different solutions and it's always the same result. Win2k3, when he has to boot after to have copied source files, stops with a nice blue screen (The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated with a status of 0xc000026c).

Is there a particular method to prepare a virtual machine that is hosted to this iscsi san ?

Now, I'm also making tests with WinXP and it's a little different. The result is always "WinXP did not find any hard disk"...

Thank you,

Alain

Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:03 pm

ESX 3.0.2 has broken iSCSI support. Either roll back to 3.0.1 or wait for VMware guys to release appropriate patch.

Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:09 pm

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread. ... &tstart=90