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Greetings,
Knowing this 4 year old Dell 1850 rack server does not conform to the virtualisation platform specs needed by PVE, we still wanted to install PVE on this spare box that was idle. PVE looks like a terrific solution, we want to convert a VMware .vmdk image into this platform and run it.
QUESTION:
On initial boot up all seemed fine, it populated via DHCP the IP address and other values. But there is no light blinking at the NIC card on rear of machine and we can't ping anything. Is there a way to install a generic NIC driver to get this up and running using? We have the Dell ISO Open Manage utilities boot CD - the problem is that it wants to format the disk and install RHE 3.0 that the box came with. Am trying to avoid buying a new HP server per specs recommendation for the PVE host. But may have to if we can't get the Intel integrated NIC to come up on PVE boot.
Thank you all for reading. 7x24.
Knowing this 4 year old Dell 1850 rack server does not conform to the virtualisation platform specs needed by PVE, we still wanted to install PVE on this spare box that was idle. PVE looks like a terrific solution, we want to convert a VMware .vmdk image into this platform and run it.
QUESTION:
On initial boot up all seemed fine, it populated via DHCP the IP address and other values. But there is no light blinking at the NIC card on rear of machine and we can't ping anything. Is there a way to install a generic NIC driver to get this up and running using? We have the Dell ISO Open Manage utilities boot CD - the problem is that it wants to format the disk and install RHE 3.0 that the box came with. Am trying to avoid buying a new HP server per specs recommendation for the PVE host. But may have to if we can't get the Intel integrated NIC to come up on PVE boot.
Thank you all for reading. 7x24.