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November 10th, 2013 06:00

VMware no disks on PE 2950

I have a similar issue.  My BIOS is 2.4.3.  I can't install VMWare ESXi4 because it is giving me an error stating that it can't find a destination to install to.  I have gone into the bios and the drives do show up as PD, but nothing under VD.  I can't get an OS to install either.

Any ideas?

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November 22nd, 2013 06:00

You will probably want to configure 2x73 in RAID 1 for VMware, then 4x300 in RAID 10 for the storage/VM's, but you must configure RAID before VMware can find any disks to install to.

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November 10th, 2013 06:00

I have a similar problem.  The BIOS see's the drive's, but I can't install an OS or VMWare.  With VMWare, it states that it can't find a destination to install to and with an OS, it just takes me to press F11 or Reboot options.

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November 10th, 2013 07:00

Assuming you are using a PERC 5/6, you MUST configure RAID before any disks can be seen by the OS.  The PERC's do NOT support non-RAID, so any disks must be configured before any storage will be presented to the OS.  You do this in CTRL-R.  How many disks do you have and how large are they?

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November 21st, 2013 23:00

I have 6 disks.  Four of them are 300GB and two of them are 73GB.

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