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Does the PowerEdge 2850 BIOS Support Virtualization Technology?
Hi,
We are currently running VMWare ESX server on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with an Intel Xeon processor and we need to run 64bit guest OS machines, however to do this we need to enable the Virtualization technology.
Is it possible to do this on 2850s, if so where abouts is the option?
I've looked in some of the usual places such as "Security" and "Performance Settings" within the BIOS but couldn't find anything which stood out as the correct option
Thanks for your help in advance,
Gregg
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December 17th, 2008 11:00
On the 2950 you go into the bios, select the processor and press enter. In the menu there you have an option to turn on Virtualization Technology.
If you check the 2850's specs you see it's capped at the 800MHz bus. If you then go to Intel and look at the Xeon comparison list you can see that the 800MHz FSB puts it in the bottom section. Taking a Core-based Xeon 5100 and an 800MHz-FSB processor and doing a comparison you can see that the old Xeon (used in the 2850) doesn't offer VT.
So if you want to run a 64-bit VM, you'll need to upgrade to a Poweredge 9th generation server (e.g. 2950).
Greggnogg
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December 18th, 2008 00:00
Ahhh, OK....
Thanks for the response, I guess we'll have to discuss the upgrade option.
Thanks again, much appreciated...
Gregg