Help with a test server

Guest2 · 17 Mar 2010 at 11:35

unp|dissy said:
Make RAID 1 array with bios tool (F8 / CTRL+A ON BOOT)

How do I get into the BIOS?? I hammer the Ctrl+A and F8 keys and it goes straight into windows setup

edit - i get the following when i turn the server on

White screen with PXE boot, escape to cancel to boot
Ctrl + S to get to setup (this is to change from PXE boot)
configuting mac address
No operating system found

:confused:

unp|dissy · 17 Mar 2010 at 11:49

Guest2 said:
How do I get into the BIOS?? I hammer the Ctrl+A and F8 keys and it goes straight into windows setup

Hm, on bootup it should tell you how to get into the raid utility. It's not the bios.

Have a look at the bios (F12 or F2 or DEL on boot) and ensure sata raid is enabled.. that might unlock the option

unp|dissy · 17 Mar 2010 at 11:50

Guest2 said:
How do I get into the BIOS?? I hammer the Ctrl+A and F8 keys and it goes straight into windows setup

edit - i get the following when i turn the server on

White screen with PXE boot, escape to cancel to boot
Ctrl + S to get to setup (this is to change from PXE boot)
configuting mac address
No operating system found

Do CTRL and S. See where that takes you.

Try and get into the bios (above post) and check sata raid is enabled.

Guest2 · 17 Mar 2010 at 12:05

HP screen had escape, F10 for ROM bios, F12 for PXE bios. I tried F10 and its the normal bios (just didnt know it was called ROM bios) SATA RAID was disabled in there. Enabled it and then booted to RAID setup with F8.

Its building the RAID 1 array now.

Thanks for help all. I'll probably be opsting back here soon if I have problems installing 2003 on the array or problems installing VMWare Server

unp|dissy · 17 Mar 2010 at 12:14

Guest2 said:
HP screen had escape, F10 for ROM bios, F12 for PXE bios. I tried F10 and its the normal bios (just didnt know it was called ROM bios) SATA RAID was disabled in there. Enabled it and then booted to RAID setup with F8.

Its building the RAID 1 array now.

Thanks for help all. I'll probably be opsting back here soon if I have problems installing 2003 on the array or problems installing VMWare Server

Good man, Sorted

Build the array (may take a while

) boot windows install with raid driver, install, job's a gudden'!.

VMWare is nice, but consider a linux/xen virtual platform, it's "free" and very stable.

HF with virtualization

Guest2 · 17 Mar 2010 at 16:01

VMWare Server is now installed on RAID 1.

When I go to the shortcut 'VMware Server Home Page' I 'page cannot be displayed' message

It trys to go here (mahcine name is 'vmware')

https://vmware:8333/ui/

I have gone into connection and enabled VM Ware bridge protocol on the 2 default connections VMnet1 and VMnet8

I left all port numbers etc on default settings when installing

edit - in the lower right i have vwmare server web access, under the startup tab, this is the working path
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\tomcat

unp|dissy · 17 Mar 2010 at 16:27

Guest2 said:
VMWare Server is now installed on RAID 1.

When I go to the shortcut 'VMware Server Home Page' I 'page cannot be displayed' message

It trys to go here (mahcine name is 'vmware')

https://vmware:8333/ui/

I have gone into connection and enabled VM Ware bridge protocol on the 2 default connections VMnet1 and VMnet8

I left all port numbers etc on default settings when installing

edit - in the lower right i have vwmare server web access, under the startup tab, this is the working path
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\tomcat

Is apache tomcat running? (services.msc in run box and ensure the service is running..)

Firewall in the way?!

Can you ping vmware ?

Try by ip instead of hostname 'vmware'

Edit:

If your trying to connect to the vmware machine from external box use its ip (or add a entry for that ip / server name in the hosts file)
If you just want to do it locally on ur vmare box, try https://localhost:8333/ui/

Guest2 · 17 Mar 2010 at 16:31

firewall is off, i can ping it

I tried this and it does something different but comes up with a message about unsupported broswer or javascript needed.

http://vmware:8308/ui/

Im installing SP2 at the moment and latest javascript

Thanks

this message...

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VMware Infrastructure Web Access will not work unless your browser supports JavaScript.

Please ensure that you are using a compatible browser and that JavaScript is enabled.

Try Again

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Guest2 · 18 Mar 2010 at 09:58

back again! I now have my vmserver installed and have got into the web console. I ran windows update and got new ie etc

This is the address it goes to

https://panvmware:8333/ui

I have created a virtual machine (VM001) and turned it on through the console. How do i now connect to it to install a guest operating system? I selected Windos XP 32bit when creating it

When i go to the virtual machines tab and select VM001 i have options to power off, suspend and reset

In the manual it says the following...

To install a guest operating system from an installation CD
1 Log in to VI Web Access.
2 Select the virtual machine into which you are installing the guest operating system
from the Inventory panel.
3 Insert the installation CD for your guest operating system.
4 In the Hardware section of the Summary tab, click the CD/DVD drive’s icon and
select Edit.

Where abouts is this hardware section inside the summary tab?

Thanks

edit - ignore that, found it now, i just needed to add it to the inventory. Next task is trying to get the guest OS installed, i have connected a usb cd drive with XP in and it show its found it in the console 'LD super RW' but boots from PXE rom then says no operating system found. On the LG drive the option to connect is greyed out

edit2 - also, when i create a shortcut for my virtual machine it works on the server i have vmware server on but on my mahcine the address doesnt work. This is the link

https://vmware:8333/ui/?wsUrl=http:...o=VirtualMachine|16&inventory=none&tabs=hide_

update - I have my virtual machine installing now from ISO for XP. Just to work out how to use the generated links

unp|dissy · 18 Mar 2010 at 12:40

Guest2 said:
back again! I now have my vmserver installed and have got into the web console. I ran windows update and got new ie etc

This is the address it goes to

https://panvmware:8333/ui

I have created a virtual machine (VM001) and turned it on through the console. How do i now connect to it to install a guest operating system? I selected Windos XP 32bit when creating it

When i go to the virtual machines tab and select VM001 i have options to power off, suspend and reset

In the manual it says the following...

To install a guest operating system from an installation CD
1 Log in to VI Web Access.
2 Select the virtual machine into which you are installing the guest operating system
from the Inventory panel.
3 Insert the installation CD for your guest operating system.
4 In the Hardware section of the Summary tab, click the CD/DVD drive’s icon and
select Edit.

Where abouts is this hardware section inside the summary tab?

Thanks

edit - ignore that, found it now, i just needed to add it to the inventory. Next task is trying to get the guest OS installed, i have connected a usb cd drive with XP in and it show its found it in the console 'LD super RW' but boots from PXE rom then says no operating system found. On the LG drive the option to connect is greyed out

edit2 - also, when i create a shortcut for my virtual machine it works on the server i have vmware server on but on my mahcine the address doesnt work. This is the link

https://vmware:8333/ui/?wsUrl=http:...o=VirtualMachine|16&inventory=none&tabs=hide_

update - I have my virtual machine installing now from ISO for XP. Just to work out how to use the generated links

Good work mate.

Guest2 · 18 Mar 2010 at 15:00

sorted the generated links. I just turned windows firewall off. onto the next step... install a server 2003 virtual machine then clone it

2003 now install and ran clone zilla from an ISO on boot.

I get to the part where its about to clone and it says something like "cannot run clonezilla off a mounted disk"

any clues?

Guest2 · 24 Mar 2010 at 11:58

Update...

scrapped clonezilla off and got R-Drive image. Will clone to image on portable then run from startup, it looks a lot easier and definately supports raid 5

I have also downloaded vCenter, vSphere and VMWare ESXi. I'll stick vCenter and vSphere on the test server and use a workstation as a server with ESXi on. I have a feeling its going to be a bit more complicated setting this up that it was to set up VMWare Server standard (using vCenter to link all the physical servers together to make a cluster pool of servers etc)