Today I purchased a couple of old servers on craiglist to setup my home testing lab. one of my plan is to setup ESX on one of these servers and setup the other one as a SAN ( more on this later). the first thing I tried to do was to install ESXi 4.0 but somehow the installation was halted at the following boot process:
Booting: MBI =0X000100d8, entry=0×001100212
After a small research I found out that ESXi 4.0 does not support 32-bit only processors, and unfortunately the XEON processor on this server does not support 64-bit processing. I will have to install ESXi 3.5 , and find a newer machine to install 4.0 for my testing.
