We have recently upgraded our vCenter to 5.1.0b, and ofcourse I wanted to update our running (stateless) ESXi blades right away. It appeared this is a little harder then I expected it to be. The image building works fine, the HP tools are included without problems just like the be2net driver. Except the blades I'm using to test my image keep on stalling on starting the hp-ams.sh script/agents.
Then after a while it continues but it goes to the main screen, but I am unable to use any keys. I can't look at the log, it doesn't seem to exit from the 'screensaver' (dark screen).
The method I used to build these Images to run our stateless bladeservers hasn't changed at all, except that I'm using the ESXi 5.1 image to build it now. I have already updated all the firmware of the BL460c G7 blade, so that shouldn't be a problem.
I am also unable to view the logs during the crash so I have no idea how to find out what the problem could be. I have created a script to build ESXi images which I use for Auto Deploy.
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