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January 16th, 2020 08:00
ESXi 6.7 baremetal deployment not working on R730
running appliance version 5.0.0.1361
i'm attempting the "ISO Profile (ESXi installation)" install without the "System Profile (Configuration of the hardware)". bios settings and the local mirror raid were configured manually prior to the deployment wizard. and just to note, we've done many ESXi installs with this same appliance following the same steps successfully but this is the first time we're seeing this error.
i entered all the basic communication requirements in the baremetal deployment wizard. and the GUI goes through with no errors. OMIVV successfully boots up the server and begins the ESXi install, but once it starts reading the installation script at the grey/yellow screen, it errors out shortly after. first it shows the "network command not specified" error, followed up with the "no such file or directory" error as if there's a network communication issue. screenshots of both errors attached. there are no network firewalls in between the appliance and the idrac/esxi management IPs. and interestingly enough, i can ping the assigned ESXi management IP during these error screens... so the appliance IS passing some parameters to the host. The ESXi install just won't successfully complete.
Dell-DylanJ
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January 16th, 2020 15:00
Hi,
Do you mind if I ask what ISO you're using? The Dell customized or standard ISO? I was looking into the symptom set you're describing and a colleague of mine had run into something similar. I
benitez
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January 17th, 2020 09:00
we're attempting to use a custom-made ISO with updated HCL drivers based off VMware's vanilla ESXi ISO build 11675023
we found a workaround by using the vanilla ISO for the OMIVV baremetal portion and then using VMware Update Manager to update to the custom made ISO containing the updated drivers. No issues with the ESXi host so far using this method.
One of the updated HCL drivers in our custom-made ISO is causing the baremetal install to fail. perhaps a bad firmware/driver combination. i'm attaching a screenshot of the drivers we updated from the vanilla ESXi ISO. one of these drivers is the culprit. not sure which.
strangely, this same custom ISO (with updated drivers) worked with our R740 hosts during the baremetal installation. we didn't have to use a vanilla ISO for those R740s, albeit, some components between R730s/R740s differ.