Upgraded the test VMware environment this weekend from 3.5 U3 to vSphere 4. The upgrade completed without any problem. But the vSphere server always hangs when powering up the 3rd guest servers. (All guest system are Windows 2003 32 bit.) We first thought one of the guest system might be the problem because there is not problem with only 2 guest systems powered on. But there is no problem when we started that VM first. The host server only hangs when we started the third guest server.
We first believed the upgrade went wrong. So we backed up the guest systems and start the vSphere install from scratch. After the install and restore the servers, same problem. When we run with the evaluation license, host server hang during the first system boot up. There is no BSOD, the server remain in the F1 and F11 screen. No key stoke allow on the server.
Has anyone seen this problem before?
Here is my configuration;
Dell PowerEdge SC1430 server
Dell CERC 1.5/6CH SATA RAID card
(3) 500 GB SATA hard drives.
(2) Intel 1000 pro NIC
(1) BroadCom NetXtreme NIC
Upgraded and installed from the ISO file downloaded this weekend. Used both vSphere license and evaluation mode
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