{"id":824,"date":"2016-04-15T21:38:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T13:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.infinity.idv.tw\/?p=824"},"modified":"2016-04-15T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T13:48:08","slug":"esxi5-5u3-install-fail-on-new-x3650-m5-failed-to-resolve-circular-relocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.infinity.idv.tw\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"ESXI5.5U3 INSTALL FAIL ON NEW X3650 M5 &ndash; FAILED TO RESOLVE CIRCULAR RELOCATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u65b0\u8cb7\u7684Levono X3650 M5 Server \u5b89\u88ddESXi 5.1 U3 \u4e00\u534a\u6642\u51fa\u73fe FAILED TO RESOLVE CIRCULAR RELOCATION\uff0c\u67e5\u4e86\u4e00\u4e0b\u8cc7\u6599\uff0c\u767c\u73fe\u6709\u4eba\u6709\u4e00\u6a23\u7684\u554f\u984c\uff0c\u6e2c\u8a66\u5f8c\u771f\u7684\u53ef\u4ee5\u5b89\u88dd\uff0c\u53ea\u662f\u4e0d\u77e5\u5b89\u88dd\u5b8c\u5f8c\u9700\u4e0d\u9700\u8981\u6539\u56deBIOS\u8a2d\u5b9a\u503c?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>=======================<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/kitkatneko.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/10\/esxi5-5u2-install-fail-on-new-x240-m5-failed-to-resolve-circular-relocation\/\" href=\"https:\/\/kitkatneko.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/10\/esxi5-5u2-install-fail-on-new-x240-m5-failed-to-resolve-circular-relocation\/\">https:\/\/kitkatneko.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/10\/esxi5-5u2-install-fail-on-new-x240-m5-failed-to-resolve-circular-relocation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>ESXI5.5U2 INSTALL FAIL ON NEW X240 M5 \u2013 FAILED TO RESOLVE CIRCULAR RELOCATION<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/kitkatneko.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/10\/esxi5-5u2-install-fail-on-new-x240-m5-failed-to-resolve-circular-relocation\/\">10\/06\/2015<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/kitkatneko.wordpress.com\/author\/kitkatneko\/\">kitkatneko<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other day I ran into a strange issue. Just received a bunch of Flex Blade x240 for a Vmware cluster and trying to get ESXi installed I was stopped by the following message: Failed to Resolve circular relocation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kitkatneko.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/vmware-esxi-failure.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"clip_image002\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image002\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.infinity.idv.tw\/blog-img\/ESX.5U2-INSTALL-FAIL-ON-NEW-X240-M5--FAI_12FE0\/clip_image002.jpg\" width=\"806\" height=\"642\" \/><\/a>failed to resolve circular relocation<\/p>\n<p>It happened on one server so I tried the next one and the next, same thing!<\/p>\n<p>I opened a case with Vmware which resulted in the following KB:2050443<a href=\"http:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=2050443\">http:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=2050443<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems like ESXi doesn\u2019t support MMIO regions above 4GB.<\/p>\n<p>It took me for ever to find the relevant IBM\/Lenovo information. Eventually found it at<a href=\"https:\/\/www-947.ibm.com\/support\/entry\/myportal\/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5096729&amp;brandind=5000020\">https:\/\/www-947.ibm.com\/support\/entry\/myportal\/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5096729&amp;brandind=5000020<\/a> not thanks to Lenovo support!<\/p>\n<p>So I made the following changes in my BIOS, from 64-Bit resource allocation: Enabled to Disabled. And MM Config Base from 2GB to 3GB.<\/p>\n<p>You will find the above settings under the BIOS&gt;System Settings&gt; Devices and IO ports<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kitkatneko.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/vmware-esxi-failure-lenovo-good-config.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"clip_image004\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image004\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.infinity.idv.tw\/blog-img\/ESX.5U2-INSTALL-FAIL-ON-NEW-X240-M5--FAI_12FE0\/clip_image004.jpg\" width=\"806\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope this helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u65b0\u8cb7\u7684Levono X3650 M5 Server \u5b89\u88ddESXi 5.1 U3 \u4e00\u534a\u6642\u51fa\u73fe FAILED TO RESOLVE CIRCULAR RELOCATION\uff0c\u67e5\u4e86\u4e00\u4e0b\u8cc7\u6599\uff0c\u767c\u73fe\u6709\u4eba\u6709\u4e00\u6a23\u7684\u554f\u984c\uff0c\u6e2c\u8a66\u5f8c\u771f\u7684\u53ef\u4ee5\u5b89\u88dd\uff0c\u53ea\u662f\u4e0d\u77e5\u5b89\u88dd\u5b8c\u5f8c\u9700\u4e0d\u9700\u8981\u6539\u56deBIOS\u8a2d\u5b9a\u503c?<\/p>\n<p>=======================<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/kitkatneko.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/10\/esxi5-5u2-install-fail-on-new-x240-m5-failed-to-resolve-circular-relocation\/<\/p>\n<p>ESXI5.5U2 INSTALL FAIL ON NEW X240 M5 \u2013 FAILED TO RESOLVE CIRCULAR RELOCATION<\/p>\n<p>Posted on 10\/06\/2015 by kitkatneko<\/p>\n<p>The other day I ran into a strange issue. Just received a bunch of Flex Blade x240 for a Vmware cluster and trying to get ESXi installed [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.infinity.idv.tw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.infinity.idv.tw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.infinity.idv.tw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.infinity.idv.tw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.infinity.idv.tw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.infinity.idv.tw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"http:\/\/blog.infinity.idv.tw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.infinity.idv.tw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.infinity.idv.tw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.infinity.idv.tw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}