The fix I posted yesterday appears to work in certain configurations. After hours of troubleshooting, researching, and being frustrated, I have found an alternate fix that appears to work 100% of the time. The directions here are Dell specific, but can easily be modified for any make/moel.
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Uninstall Windows Server 2003 Scalable Network Pack [...]
Today I setup a Windows Server 2003 32bit system, and windows did not have any drivers for my network card. This system was a Dell M600 blade (which uses the same Broadcom 57XX series NIC as the rest of Dell’s blade offerings, and 9th generation servers). I downloaded the NetXtreme II drivers directly from Broadcoms [...]
Trying to install ESX 3.X on a new server with greater than 64GB of RAM? Then you’ve probably run into a problem. When looking at the host summary in VC, a host with no VMs on it will appear to be utilizing almost 50% of it’s available RAM! This bug was supposedly fixed via patch, but if [...]
