After assembling the new machine, I decided to wait on installing the PCI Intel Pro 1000 (which will connect to the back door gig-e) until I get power up and until the machine looks like it will work. It has an on board NIC that I can use for management access.
First boot saw the PXE try to find its foot (no go) then no boot image. A few clicks in the bios and a ESX 3.5 CD in the DVD and the box beagn loading ESX. As I saw with my Dell 745, 3.5 seems none too happy with these new boxes.
So I removed the 3.5 CD and inserted a ESXi 4.0 Update 1 CD and quickly installed it and a configured a static IP. Logging into the ESXi from vSphere client told me everything looks good.
Moving on to vCenter to add this new host to the Towers Data Center.
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