ESXi Guests will not boot on IBM x3550 M3

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Published on 2012-06-05T00:57:34Z Indexed on 2012/06/05 4:42 UTC
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I have a problem with Guests not booting under VMWare ESXi 5.0 on my IBM x3550M3 server.

VM Host Server:

IBM x3550 M3 7944AC1 server w/ 2x Intel Xeon E5607 2.27Ghz CPUs
ESXi 5.0.0 Build 623860, built for IBM Hardware downloaded from IBM
Storage: 2x500GB SAS local storage
8GB RAM
Vt is verified to be ENABLED
Server Health Status: Normal

The ESXi host boots just fine. The Client connects just fine. Guests can be configured but do not successfully boot. The initial guest memory consumption jumps up to 560MB and drops down to 40MB after a few seconds. Initial CPU usage is 1 full CPU (3000Ghz per the chart) and immediately drops downm to 29Mhz. Guests do not display any output in the Console tab but show a state of 'Powered On'.

VMs are listed as Version 7 and the behavior is duplicated across all availabled Guest OS flavors. Problem also duplicated when server is booted up in Legacy Only mode.

Logs do not contain anything particularly suspucious.

Edit: No firewalls, routers, or VLANs in between the client and server.

Edit 2: We have tried to Boot Guest into BIOS screen at Next Boot checkbox in the Guest Setting. Was not successful.

Edit 3: 500GB datastore with 1 40GB VM on it. Plenty of space.

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