Hi all,
Like many others, I purchased a few Dell C1100 servers off eBay for a home VMware lab. I am having the most difficult and frustrating time trying to get ESXi installed on them.
I have two different USB keys and have tried both ESXi 5.1 update 1 and ESXi 5.5. All the servers recognize the USB keys as two different mass storage devices. I have set the boot order properly in the BIOS but it never loads the installer. I get a "Missing Operating System" message before it tries to PXE boot and gets stuck in a loop.
Specs are dual 2.26 GHz Xeon, 72 GB RAM, 4x 250 GB hard drives.
Yes I realize 5.5 is not on the HCL which is why I tried 5.1 as well.
Any suggestions? Thank you.