ESXi
From Attie's Wiki
Useful stuffs...
Hanging on ipmi_si_drv
- Press
Shift + O
and appendnoipmiEnabled
to the boot args - Once booted, connect with vSphere and add uncheck
VMkernel.Boot.impiEnabled
Use SATA drive as an RDM
- Login as root
- Run
fdisk -l
and locate the disk you wish to use - Run
ls /dev/disks/ -l
and locate the symlink to that disk - Goto the correct directory to place the new vmdk
- Run
vmkfstools -r /vmfs/devices/disks/<symlink> RDM.vmdk -a lsilogic
- Disk type
-
-r
- create Virtual device -
-z
- create Physical (passthrough) device - careful with these
-
- Controller
-a ...
-
buslogic
- probrably not -
lsilogic
-
ide
-
- Disk type