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bga68compBest Practices to Install VMWare
Workaround for Installing VMWare on First Generation (Gen 1) SD Cards in Expert Mode
Once you start the installer application, find the partition where you want to install VMWare. In the following example the partition is vmhba33:C0:T0:L0.
Step 1 Press Alt+F1 to enter the VMWare recovery console.
Step 2 Create a GUID Partition Table (GPT) on the disk:
/dev/disks # partedUtil mklabel mpx.vmhba33:C0:T0:L0 gpt
Step 3 Verify the GPT:
/dev/disks # partedUtil get mpx.vmhba33:C0:T0:L0
3785 255 63 60817408
Step 4 Return to installing VMWare.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/release/notes/Release_Notes_for_Cisco_C-Series_SW_2_0_8.html
Workaround for Installing VMWare on First Generation (Gen 1) SD Cards in Expert Mode
Once you start the installer application, find the partition where you want to install VMWare. In the following example the partition is vmhba33:C0:T0:L0.
Step 1 Press Alt+F1 to enter the VMWare recovery console.
Step 2 Create a GUID Partition Table (GPT) on the disk:
/dev/disks # partedUtil mklabel mpx.vmhba33:C0:T0:L0 gpt
Step 3 Verify the GPT:
/dev/disks # partedUtil get mpx.vmhba33:C0:T0:L0
3785 255 63 60817408
Step 4 Return to installing VMWare.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/release/notes/Release_Notes_for_Cisco_C-Series_SW_2_0_8.html
