I'm just testing/practicing right now... I have Dell PE2600 sitting cold so I thought I'd load up esxi and try and load some vm's. I have a wim of a generic server build I created and I want to be lazy and not go through a server build up in a new vm. I tried PXE booting the new vm and pulling the wim via BDD but that didn't go so well. I've pxe booted VirtualPC vm's to snag XP wim's, so I know that it can work that way. Also, the WIM was created from a baseline Win2k3r2 installed on the same PE2600, I then blew out drives and PXE booted the win2k3r2 wim and was back online. Then I used the esxi ISO and installed it, ran the web interface and created a VM. I then attempted to PXE boot it with the same WIM. No joy, and now I forget what the problem was. I'll try it again next week. Possible future use would be to image all of my servers and run them via vm's. Though, like most, my budget is for "absolute needs" right now. Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246
________________________________ From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ESXi and WIM files Can you give more detail on the situation and what you are trying to do? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 ________________________________ From: Jake Gardner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ESXi and WIM files Can anyone point me to some articles or something about converting WIMs to something esxi can use? Or can it use WIMs and I just havn't figured out how yet? Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 ***Teletronics Technology Corporation*** This e-mail is confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the addressee or authorized by the addressee to receive this e-mail, you may not disclose, copy, distribute, or use this e-mail. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail or by telephone at 267-352-2020 and destroy this message and any copies. Thank you. ******************************************************************* ________________________________ This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
