Hi,
For esxi5,  I used hypervisor profile.
And for esxi4, I used hypervisor and base both.

Thanks,
yixuan


On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Xiao Peng Wang <[email protected]> wrote:

>  For esxi5, which profile did you use? For esxi4, I could help you to
> debug that why node could not update status to xcatd.
>
>
> Thanks
> Best Regards
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> [image: Inactive hide details for Yixuan Huang ---2013/06/11
> 18:54:29---Finally, I got esxi5 to work now, both for pxe and xnba. But 
> no]Yixuan
> Huang ---2013/06/11 18:54:29---Finally, I got esxi5 to work now, both for
> pxe and xnba. But not for esxi4.1,  it will fail to send
>
> From: Yixuan Huang <[email protected]>
> To: xcat-user <[email protected]>,
> Date: 2013/06/11 18:54
> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] install esxi4.1 and 5.1 on system x server
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Finally, I got esxi5 to work now, both for pxe and xnba. But not for
> esxi4.1,  it will fail to send result to xcatd. I comment reboot in auto
> install script, to see what happen on esxi host.
> Here is the /tmp/foo.log:
> connect: network is unreachable
> connect: errno=22
>
> When i try to ping that node, cannot ping.
> From esxcfg-vmnic -l result, there has no IP present for vmnic1 which is
> connect to network. However, when installation start before, I can ssh into
> that esxi host.
>
> When I tried to use netboot as pxe, when in pxe boot stage, it will be
> prompt message like: xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/mboot.c32: not a COM32R
> image.
>
>
> In a word, for xnba, xcat cannot be retrieved signal from node, something
> is wrong for network configuration;  for pxe, will be failed at pxe boot.
>
> Any idea to help solve those issue?
>
>
> Thanks,
> yixuan
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Yixuan Huang 
> <*[email protected]*<[email protected]>>
> wrote:
>
>    Hello,
>    When I change netboot to pxe, i can boot esxi5.1 successfully. But I
>    still have two questions:
>    1) what reason when I used xnba, it will loop infinite to install?
>    2) when installation has been successfully, if definition update in
>    lsdef, as below information from that environment, status still get at
>    installing. is it working as design?
>
>    lsdef esxi5host:
>    Object name: esxi5host
>
>        arch=x86_64
>        bmc=*9.115.235.135* <9.115.235.135>
>        bmcpassword=PASSW0RD
>        bmcport=1
>        bmcusername=USERID
>        cons=ipmi
>        currchain=boot
>        currstate=boot
>        groups=all
>        installnic=vmnic1
>        ip=192.168.1.5
>        kcmdline=-c
>    xcat/netboot/esxi5.1/x86_64/hypervisor/boot.cfg.install ks=*
>    
> http://192.168.1.2/install/autoinst/esxi5host*<http://192.168.1.2/install/autoinst/esxi5host>
>        kernel=xcat/netboot/esxi5.1/x86_64/hypervisor/mboot.c32
>
>        mac=6C:AE:8B:60:FE:03
>        mgt=ipmi
>        netboot=pxe
>        nfsserver=192.168.1.2
>        nodetype=osi
>        os=esxi5.1
>        postbootscripts=otherpkgs
>        postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp
>        primarynic=vmnic1
>        profile=hypervisor
>        provmethod=install
>        status=installing
>        statustime=06-11-2013 15:20:14
>        xcatmaster=master
>
>
>    Thanks,
>    yixuan
>
>
>    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>    From: *Yixuan Huang* <*[email protected]* <[email protected]>>
>    Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:12 PM
>    Subject: install esxi4.1 and 5.1 on system x server
>    To: *[email protected]* <[email protected]>
>
>
>    Hello,
>    When I tried to install esxi4.1 and 5.1 with xcat 2.8.1. I met
>    following issue.
>    It can be booted and successfully installed, and reboot, but pxe will
>    install esxi server again...
>    lsdef esxihost (which esxihost is my esxi node information):
>    Object name: esxihost
>        arch=x86_64
>        bmc=*9.115.235.135* <9.115.235.135>
>        bmcpassword=PASSW0RD
>        bmcport=1
>        bmcusername=USERID
>        cons=ipmi
>        currchain=boot
>        currstate=install esxi4.1-x86_64-base
>        groups=all
>        installnic=eth1
>        ip=192.168.1.4
>        kcmdline=xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/vmkboot.gz quiet repo=*
>    http://192.168.1.2:8* <http://192.168.1.2:8/>
>    0/install/esxi4.1/x86_64 ks=*
>    
> http://192.168.1.2:80/install/autoinst/esxihost*<http://192.168.1.2/install/autoinst/esxihost>
>  ksde
>    vice=vmnic1 --- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/vmkernel.gz ---
>    xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/bas
>    e/sys.vgz --- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/cim.vgz ---
>    xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/ienv
>    iron.vgz --- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/install.vgz ---
>    xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/m
>    od.tgz
>        kernel=xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/mboot.c32
>        mac=6C:AE:8B:60:FE:03
>        mgt=ipmi
>        netboot=xnba
>        nfsserver=192.168.1.2
>        os=esxi4.1
>        postbootscripts=otherpkgs
>        postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp
>        primarynic=eth1
>        profile=base
>        provmethod=install
>        status=installing
>        statustime=06-09-2013 17:32:39
>        xcatmaster=master
>
>    Any idea to solve that issue? And how to debug if there has such
>    issue, when I enable SOL, it cannot work for esxi installation, no output
>    to SOL session.
>
>    Another question is, when I used esxi5.1 to install, it still use
>    legacy CSM PXE, not the UEFI pxe.
>
>    Thanks,
>    yixuan
>
>
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