Hello guys,
I want to bring forth a problem that I have been trying to resolve now for a few weeks but have been unable to. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
First of my hardware:
Dell Precision T5500 Workstation Xeon 8 Core 3.06Ghz-. 24GB DDR3 ECC RAM. 2TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.5" HDD 250GB SSD + WD Gold 4TB high-capacity datacenter harddrive - SATA - 7200rpm - 128 MB Buffer installed as a separate drive. Window's 10 Professional installed.
I am using VMware Player (have used VMWare workstation as well) install ESXi 6.5 to use in my home lab.The install process is excruciatingly slow.
I have given it 4 virtual processors to use and 16 gigs of ram. (On youtube, people have allocated fewer resources and their install flies by.
After 3 hours, here is the progress, as you can see from the screen below:
I have tried the to follow KB article to the best of my ability: VMware Knowledge Base but to no avail.
I absolutely refuse to believe that my hardware is not strong enough to run ESXi when I run Windows 2016 / Windows 2012 and other servers simutaneously, including my Linux distro's.
I have also tried booting with the noHeadless=true option without any luck and have also made:
vmci0.present = "FALSE"
to circumvent another error.
I have also tried different hardware types, for example using SCSI and SATA, IDE for my install. Nothing makes a difference.
Please let me know why the "install" of ESXi on such a beefy workstation is so slow.