Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Running VMWare ESXi on Low End Hosts

In order to evaluate ESXi for use in test environments, I had installed it on a low end host (a DELL Optiplex GX520 desktop) and tried to run two virtual machines on it. However, when I would try to start the second virtual machine, it would throw an “Admission check failed for Memory Resource” error on me. I wasn’t able to figure out why this was happening as I had run two virtual machines with the same configuration on a host with similar resources using VMWare Server.

All that needs to be done is to modify the memory reservation in the resource allocation tab

1. Open the VMWare Infrastructure interface to the ESXi server
2. Select Configuration >> System Resource Allocation >>Advanced
3. Click on Edit Settings and edit the memory reservation and change it to 256 MB or lower (as per requirement)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hello

I am alsomtrying to install esxi (hypervisor) on the dell optiplex gx520 I upgraded the bios to A11 and yet the installation still complaints it cannot find a media to write on. Did you get this error message and how did you solve it.

Thanks

Michel

Ashish Narmen said...

Hello Michel,
The install process ran smoothly without any errors on the Dell Optiplex GX520.

However, I have observed the error that you have mentioned on another system that did not have SATA hard drive.

Which version of ESXi are you using? Drop me a mail on my email address if you need a detailed configuration report of the PC.

regards,
ashish dot narmen at gmail