It’s the 4th SDHC card I’ve use for ESXi intallation. The last 3 used for ESXi 4.1, but now for the ESXi 5.
The procedure same with the last 3 :
- insert the SDHC card into the left side hole of BL460c
- Login into HP BladeSystem Onboard Administrator
- select the server, ILO, start the server
- from Virtual Drives menu, select CD/DVD, Virtual Image
- select esxi 5 installer ( VMvisor5.iso)
- choose boot from DVDrom
- start the installation and select the SDHC card as media
- follow the wizard ‘til finish
- after reboot, configure the ip address, dns, hostname
- now you have the ESXi 5 server
Detail spec :
- Server : HP Blade Server BL 460c G7
- Disk : 2 x 146 GB 15k
- Mem : 16 GB
- Proc : X5667 @ 3.07 GHz
- ESXi : ESXi 5.00 ( VMKernel Release Build 441354)
- SDHC Card : Sandisk Extreme 4 GB class 6 ( 20MB/s)
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