Comments on: Connecting ESX to SAN: PCI Device resource allocation failure

By: Matt O

Matt O — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:14:04 +0000

I encountered the same issues and error messages you mentioned with PCI NICs and a raid controller already in my ESX host. I would never have thought to look and turn this off in the BIOS. Thanks for sharing, saved me an awful lot of TShooting. Keep up the good work

By: Parias

Parias — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:03:40 +0000

Interesting, I never would’ve thought to look for this.. hit up a similar problem with an x3550. Thanks for publishing this!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:46:48 +0000

My x3650 was having the same issue. Thanks for the helpful fix.

By: Amar

Amar — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:06:17 +0000

Hi,

i add two nics in my 3650x server and i got same error, i followed your steps and it works fine

Thank you so much

By: Dennis Agterberg

Dennis Agterberg — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:28:02 +0000

Hi Gerben, thanx for the explanation. That could well be the case. I little bit of an unwanted situation then because those ESX servers are not all the same. When I deploy the same servers (be it ESX or just some Windows servers) I make sure everything is the same, even the placement of cards in PCI slots. Anyways a good thing you ran into this, good to know.