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What a mess.

The HCL says it works with ESX 3.5u5, 4.0 and 4.0u1. No mention of ESXi.

This blog suggests it works with ESXi 3.5u1. I can verify that it does NOT work with ESXi 3.5u5.

My personal tests (a simple install and connection with VIC):

Fail – ESXi 3.5u5
Win – ESXi 4.0u1, ESX 3.5 (trial)

I installed the only compatible RAID card (from Dell, ~$200 SAS 6 ir) and ESXi 4.0u1 is still working.

UPDATE: Just checked the website and they’re saying ESXi 3.5u5 works. I believe I have BIOS 1.3.1 and found this NOT to be true. I can’t take down my system to check anymore.

Tell your VMware application (Server, ESX, ESXi, Workstation, etc) to install VMware Tools. It will insert a CD in the drive. You will probably need to mount it by hand

mount /dev/cdrom /media

Then get it going

cp /media/VMwareTools*.tar.gz /tmp
cd /tmp
tar -xzf VMwareTools*
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl

From what I understand the RPM has never worked. This worked on CentOS 5.2 just fine. I’ve always used defaults.