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Virtualization on PowerEdge 2970
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2970. I tried to install VMware ESXi 5.5 but the installer shows "Virtualization Technology is either not supported by the CPU or not enabled"
But I enabled VT from bios. ESXi cannot detect it. How can I resolve this issue??
Please help..
DELL-Josh Cr
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January 13th, 2017 08:00
Hi,
I would make sure that the BIOS is up to date. Which CPU do you have?
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January 13th, 2017 10:00
That should work. Try powering the server all the way off, sometimes just a warm reboot will not switch the virtualization setting.
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January 13th, 2017 10:00
Are you using our image or the Vmware one?
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January 13th, 2017 10:00
BIOS version was 4.2.1 but it showed this error.
On Dell website it shows the latest BIOS version is 4.1.1 for ESXi. So I downgraded to 4.1.1 and tried to install the ESXi 5.5 downloaded from Dell website. Then again the same error appears.
Processors: dual core opteron processor 2222se
Does this support nested virtualization?
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January 13th, 2017 10:00
I have tried power on/off even by the physical power supply many times.. it does not work.
In BIOS settings it shows Virtualization Technology is enabled but ESXi does not detect a virtualization technology.. what should I do now? our application needs ESXi to run on without problem..
iosd
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January 13th, 2017 11:00
Your image for ESXi 5.5
DELL-Josh Cr
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January 13th, 2017 11:00
What does the vmware cpu tool show? www.vmware.com/.../shared_utilities.html
iosd
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January 15th, 2017 01:00
This is what is shows. Is it ok? Does this support nested virtualization too? what can be the wrong?
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January 16th, 2017 08:00
That seems to show that virtualization is working properly. Can you try an older version of esxi and see if it will let you install?
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January 16th, 2017 10:00
I tried to install ESXi 4.1. Only this version didn't show the error during installation.
But when a VM host which needs nested virtualization starts its shows "Intel-VTX of AMDv is not found"
Also what i need is ESXi 5.x which i have a license key.
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January 16th, 2017 10:00
It doesn’t look like nested is supported on second generation Opteron’s http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/GPU120AMDRVICPUsHyperVWin8.aspx
Can check with this command. https://[your-esxi-host-ip-address]/mob/?moid=ha-host&doPath=capability
iosd
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January 16th, 2017 11:00
Ok. What about the ESXi 5.x installation error?
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January 16th, 2017 11:00
I would try re-downloading our image or using the Vmware one, since the compatibility tool says it is passing the check for the CPU it looks like the hardware is working correctly.