I just un-boxed a brand new x3650 M4 7915 with BIOS 1.73 and the VMware 5.1 DVD installer is hanging at the 'initializing scheduler...' . I tried switching the BIOS boot-mode to UEFI only and Legacy Only with not success; still hangs at same spot. I tried the ESXi 5.5 DVD installer and I am getting the following error during installation (attached). This is our third x3650 M4 7915 server, the prior two installs were fine...
As per IBM, they do not recommend downgrading BIOS.
Any ideas?