Updating to ESXi 5.5 was a pretty straightforward task overall. One of my ESXi hosts upgraded without any complications. The second host hung during “relocating modules and starting up the kernel” of the initilization of the installer.
Some searching around lead me to this post with two resolutions. First was the boot option “ignoreHeadless=TRUE” setting. For my particular configuration, this was unsuccessful. The second option was to disable the ACPI headless extensions with the BIOS which was successful for my Asus Z8PE-D18 board. Below are some screenshots of the BIOS setting.
ACPI Headless Main Menu
ACPI Headless Submenu
ACPI Headless Setting
Hopefully this helps someone else searching around for ESXi 5.5 installer hangs or freezes at relocating modules and starting up the kernel,
thanks mate! this was my issue!
Stumbled upon this. I have the same motherboard. Just wondering are you using the software raid built in to the motherboard or are you using some kind of hardware raid. If hardware, what are you using and is that what you recommend.
-Thanks
I am using centralized storage for my ESXi cluster. Below is the link to the details of the storage system.
https://blog.destephen.com/wordpress/?p=302
Thanks!
This fixed my issues on the Sun X4170 I’m upgrading from 5.1 to 5.5U2
thanks